By CALE YOUNG RICE
"America has today no poet who answers so well the multiplex tests of poetry as does Cale Young Rice."—New York Sun.
"Glancing through the reviews quoted at the end of 'Earth and New Earth' we note that we have said some very enthusiastic things in praise of the poetry of Cale Young Rice, and yet there is not an adjective we would withdraw. On the contrary each new volume only confirms the expectation of the better work this writer was to produce."—The San Francisco Chronicle.
"This is a volume of verse rich in dramatic quality and beauty of conception.... Every poem is quotable and the collection must appeal to all who can appreciate the highest forms of modern verse."—The Bookseller (New York).
"Any one familiar with 'Cloister Lays,' 'The Mystic,' etc., does not need to be told that they rank with the very best poetry. And Mr. Rice's dramas are not equaled by any other American author's.... And when those who are loyal to poetic traditions cherished through the whole history of our language contemplate the anemia and artificiality of contemporaries, they can but assert that Mr. Rice has the grasp and sweep, the rhythm, imagery and pulsating sympathy, which in wondering admiration are ascribed to genius."—The Los Angeles Times.
"This latest collection shows no diminution in Mr. Rice's versatility or power of expression. Its poems are serious, keen, distinctively free and vitally spiritual in thought."—The Continent (Chicago).
"Mr. Rice is concerned with thoughts that are more than timely; they represent a large vision of the world events now transpiring ... and his affirmation of the spiritual in such an hour establishes him in the immemorial office of the poet-prophet.... The volume is a worthy addition to the large amount of his work."—Anna L. Hopper in The Louisville Courier-Journal.
"Cale Young Rice is the greatest living American poet."—D. F. Hannigan, Lit. Ed. The Rochester Post-Express.
"The indefinable spirit of swift imaginative suggestion is never lacking. The problems of fate are still big with mystery and propounded with tense elemental dramatism."—The Philadelphia North-American.
"The work of Cale Young Rice emerges clearly as the most distinguished offering of this country to the combined arts of poetry and the drama. 'Earth and New Earth' strikes a ringing new note of the earth which shall be after the War."—The Memphis Commercial-Appeal.