A glow of inspiration that merits better than that of any living poet the high adjective, Vergilian.—New York Evening Post.
Work which will live, one may venture to say, as long as the language.—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
NEW POEMS. $1.50 net. Half Morocco, $5.00 net. Postage and packing 12 cents.
Contains "On Hearing Samaroff Play," "Vivisection," "Leopold of Belgium," "To Richard Watson Gilder," "To the Invincible Republic," "Sonnets to Miranda," and "The Woman With the Serpent's Tongue."
"To the Invincible Republic" is full of a generous and admiring appreciation. All of these poems are explicit, strong, and interesting.—New York Sun.
Times—William Watson is, above all things, an artist who is proud of his calling and conscientious in every syllable that he writes. To appreciate his work you must take it as a whole, for he is in line with the high priests of poetry, reared, like Ion, in the shadow of the Delphic presences and memories, and weighing every word of his utterance before it is given to the world.
Athenæum—His poetry is a "criticism of life," and, viewed as such, it is magnificent in its lucidity, its elegance, its dignity.... We revere and admire Mr. Watson's pursuit of a splendid ideal; and we are sure that his artistic self-mastery will be rewarded by a secure place in the ranks of our poets.... We may express our belief that Mr. Watson will keep his high and honorable station when many showier but shallower reputations have withered away, and must figure in any representative anthology of English poetry.... "Wordsworth's Grave" is, in our judgment, Mr. Watson's masterpiece ... its music is graver and deeper, its language is purer and clearer, than the frigid droning and fugitive beauties of the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard."
SABLE AND PURPLE. $1.25 net. Postage 10 cents.
Boston Transcript—Still the poet whose inspirational fantasy gives distinction to modern English Literature.
Spectator—A great artist, "Sable and Purple" is of a high excellence.