What view is samuel taylor coleridge expressing in this excerpt of work without hope

What does vexed mean as it is used in the second stanza of "the second coming"?

One way that the novel differs from earlier literary works is that novelists often leave out many details associated with the setting novels only portray positive aspects of heroes and other important figures characters' personalities in novels are only revealed through dialogue readers are often able to relate better to the characters in novels

What is the best way to combine these sentences?