Edgar Allison Perrs regarded 1837 as the year of the failure of the Romantic movement in Spain, pointing to the triumph of a literary school which he denominated Eclecticism. According to this theory the Eclectic ideal involved a self-consciously reconciling criticism or juste milieu, in evidence since approximately 1820, which was able to triumph because of the ineffectiveness of the Romantic movement. Peers felt that the success of Eclecticism stemmed partly from the desire of Romantics to preserve features of the ‘Romantic Revival’ and partly from the vehement Classicist objections to the revolutionary elements of the ‘Romantic Revolt’. In his view Eclecticism, although not specially created as a compromise, satisfied most writers by rendering any extreme position impossible, so that by 1840 it had become the accepted literary mode of the day. A crucial element in Peers's theory was the disavowal of literary partisanship by a number of critics. He first quotes from an article, published in the recently established Semanario Pintoresco Español in 1836, in which Jose de la Revilla refused to countenance exclusive allegiance to either of the opposing schools: instead, a staunch supporter of beauty, he would enjoy with equal pleasure its charming effects in the works of Sophocles and in those of Victor Hugo, in the works of Shakespeare just as in those of Molière. Revilla's comment was only one of many, and Peers goes on to cite several more.