Berlioz
 

When Berlioz was reading Lamartine in Rome, he found him "delicate, celestial" but regretted that the poet was "so incomplete: he never leaves the skies."

Perhaps true, but his "Dream of the Witches' Sabbat" is sublime despite its overexposure.

This is in answer to your comment in "What are you Listening to..." (which I just noticed) not your post above, but it was about Berlioz.
Unfortunately, my library does not have the book, "Berlioz & the Romantic Century", but I still have my San Francisco library card, so I will look for the book up there. Thanks for the tip! *I have yet to get the New Yorker spoof you talked about a while back, but I haven't forgotten. ;^)