It follows that this greater work will also be simple, that is, easy to feel with the heart though it may be difficult to grasp by the intelligence.

Were it not simple in feeling, the general answer of mankind to the call of love, in all its forms, for sympathy would be unheard.

And if it be simple in feeling, it does not much matter if the deep waters of its thought are difficult for the understanding to fathom.
It would be ridiculous to dogmatise on a matter which can only be fully answered a century hence, but this much is plain.

Of these two poets, taking into consideration the whole of their work, Tennyson is the closest to human nature in its noble, common and loving forms, as Browning is the closest to what is complex, subtle and uncommon in human nature.

The representation both of the simple and of the complex is a good thing, and both poets have their place and honour.