REVIEW OF REVIEWS, New York: "Seventeen essays … remarkable for the omission of all that is tedious and cumbersome in literary appreciations, such as pedantry, muckraking, theorizing, and, in particular, constructive criticism."
BOOK NEWS MONTHLY, Philadelphia: "Not one line in the entire book that is not tense with thought and feeling. With all readers who crave mental stimulation … 'Visions and Revisions' is sure of a great and enthusiastic appreciation."
THE NATION AND THE EVENING POST, New York: "Their imagery is bright, clear and frequently picturesque. The rhythm falls with a pleasing cadence on the ear."
BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE: "A volume of singularly acute and readable literary criticism."
CHICAGO HERALD: "An essayist at once scholarly, human and charming is John Cowper Powys…. Almost every page carries some arresting thought, quaintly appealing phrase, or picture spelling passage."
REEDY'S MIRROR, St. Louis: "Powys keeps you wide awake in the reading because he's thinking and writing from the standpoint of life, not of theory or system. Powys has a system but it is hardly a system. It is a sort of surrender to the revelation each writer has to make."
KANSAS CITY STAR: "John Cowper Powys' essays are wonderfully illuminating…. Mr. Powys writes in at least a semblance of the Grand Style."
"Visions and Revisions" contains the following essays:—
Rabelais Dickens Thomas Hardy
Dante Goethe Walter Pater
Shakespeare Matthew Arnold Dostoievsky
El Greco Shelley Edgar Allan Poe
Milton Keats Walt Whitman
Charles Lamb Nietzsche Conclusion