"Cale Young Rice is highly esteemed by readers wherever English is the native speech."—The Manchester Guardian.
"In Mr. Rice we have a voice such as America has rarely known before."—The Rochester (N. Y.) Post-Express.
"Mr. Rice of today is the poet who sang to us yesterday of the big, vital things of life.... With real genius he brings to the soul a sense of things many of us have but dimly sensed in all our years."—The Philadelphia Record.
"These volumes are an anthology wrought by a master hand and endowed with perennial vitality.... This writer is the most distinguished master of lyric utterance in the new world ... and he has contributed much to the scanty stock of American literary fame. Fashions in poetry come and go, and minor lights twinkle fitfully as they pass in tumultuous review. But these volumes are of the things that are eternal in poetic expression.... They embody the hopes and impulses of universal humanity."—The Philadelphia North-American.
"Mr. Rice has been hailed by too many critics as the poet of his country, if not of his generation, not to create a demand for a full edition of his works."—The Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
"This gathering of his forces stamps Mr. Rice as one of the world's true poets, remarkable alike for strength, versatility and beauty of expression."—The Chicago Herald (Ethel M. Colton).
"It is with no undue repetition that we speak of the very great range and very great variety of Mr. Rice's subject, inspiration, and mode of expression.... The passage of his spirit is truly from deep to deep."—Margaret S. Anderson (The Louisville Evening Post).
"It is good to find such sincere and beautiful work as is in these two volumes.... Here is a writer with no wish to purchase fame at the price of eccentricity of either form or subject."—The Independent.
"Mr. Rice's style is that of the masters.... Yet it is one that is distinctively American.... He will live with our great poets."—Louisville Herald (J. J. Cole).
"Mr. Rice is an American by birth, but he is not merely an American poet. Over existence and the whole world his vision extends. He is a poet of human life and his range is uncircumscribed."—The Baltimore Evening News.