While described as a poet, and keeping extensive notes of his ideas for poems,[4] he writes none throughout the story, at least, none that are mentioned or that he reads to his fellow travellers.

While visiting Manor Farm in Dingley Dell in Kent Snodgrass falls in love with and eventually marries Emily Wardle.

[5] By the end of the novel: Mr. and Mrs. Snodgrass settled at Dingley Dell, where they purchased and cultivated a small farm, more for occupation than profit.

Mr. Snodgrass, being occasionally abstracted and melancholy, is to this day reputed a great poet among his friends and acquaintance, although we do not find that he has ever written anything to encourage the belief.

There are many celebrated characters, literary, philosophical, and otherwise, who hold a high reputation on a similar tenure.