“The setting is American and the characters are true to the American type.... The second act is drama in its highest expression.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
“He has done something unique. His comedy depicts life among the artists in Manhattan. It is the first time it has been done by one of the initiated.”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
“‘Van Zorn,’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson, might be called a comedy of temperament, introspection, and destiny. It tells an interesting story and is stimulative to thought.”—Providence Journal.
“An effective presentation of modern life in New York City, in which a poet shows his skill at prose playwriting ... he brings into the American drama to-day a thing it sadly lacks, and that is character.”—Boston Transcript.
“A lively tale told with humor and dramatic force.”—Booknews Monthly.
“... the attraction of the play is the manner in which from scene to scene the interest is piqued, until at last there is a dénouement almost Shavian in its impudence, that is, in the impudence of the main characters.”—Kentucky Post.
Captain Craig, A Book of Poems
Revised edition with additional poems, 12mo, cloth, $1.25
“There are few poets writing in English to-day whose work is so permeated by individual charm as is Mr. Robinson’s. Always one feels the presence of a man behind the poet—a man who knows life and people and things and writes of them clearly, with a subtle poetic insight that is not visible in the work of any other living writer.”—Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
“The ‘Book of Annandale,’ a splendid poem included in this collection, is one of the most moving emotional narratives found in modern poetry.”—Review of Reviews.