<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishLabda ukamilifu wa kitendo cha kuandika, kwa kweli, elegia yake mwenyewe - na ukamilifu wa kutoweza kwake kujibu wakosoaji wake baadaye - kwa kushangaza alimponya.  <response>: Perhaps the absoluteness of the act of writing, in effect, his own elegy--and the absoluteness of his inability to answer his critics afterward--curiously mellowed him. 