 By the time of his death The Times 's <unk> of Walpole was no higher than , " he had a versatile imagination ; he could tell a <unk> story in good <unk> English ; and he was a man of immense industry , conscientious and <unk> " . The <unk> tone of the obituary brought forth strong <unk> from T S Eliot , Kenneth Clark and Priestley , among others . Within a few years of his death , Walpole was seen as old @-@ fashioned , and his works were largely neglected . In the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Elizabeth Steele summed up : " His psychology was not deep enough for the <unk> , his diction not free enough for those returning from war , and his <unk> disastrous to a public wary of personal commitment " . In 2011 , Peter <unk> , an admirer of Walpole , though not an <unk> one , wrote : 
