Fourth edition
"The poems In 'Can Grande's Castle' are only four in number, but two of them ... touch magnificence. 'The Bronze Horses' has a larger sweep than Miss Lowell has ever attempted; she achieves here a sense of magnitude and time that is amazing.... Not in all contemporary poetry has the quality of balance and return been so beautifully illustrated."—Louis Untermeyer in The New Era in American Poetry.
"'Can Grande's Castle' challenges, through its vividness and contagious zest in life and color, an unreluctant admiration ... its rare union of vigor and deftness, precision and flexibility, imaginative grasp and clarity of detail."—Professor John Livingston Lowes in Convention and Revolt in Poetry.
"'Sea-Blue and Blood-Red' and 'Guns as Keys: and the Great Gate Swings' ... are such a widening of barriers they bring into literature an element imperceptible in poetry before ... the epic of modernity concentrated into thirty pages.... Not since the Elizabethans has such a mastery of words been reached in English ... one had never surmised such enchantment could have been achieved with words."—W. Bryher in The Art of Amy Lowell. A Critical Appreciation. London.
"The essential element of Miss Lowell's poetry is vividness, vividness and a power to concentrate into a few pages the spirit of an age. She indicates perfectly the slightest sense of atmosphere in a period or a city.... But the spirit of these poems is not the fashioning of pictures, however brilliant, of the past; it is the re-creation of epic moments of history made real as this present through her own individuality and vision."—The London Nation.
"We have come to it—once Poe was the living and commanding poet, whose things were waited for.... Now we watch and wait for Amy Lowell's poems. Success justifies her work.... Each separate poem in 'Can Grande's Castle' is a real and true poem of remarkable power—a work of imagination, a moving and beautiful thing."—Joseph E. Chamberlain in The Boston Transcript.
"'Can Grande's Castle' is, in the opinion of the present reviewer, not only the best book which Miss Lowell has so far written, but a great book per se.... It is a frank and revealing book. It deals with fundamentals.... In 'Sea-Blue and Blood-red' we have the old story of Nelson and 'mad, whole-hearted Lady Hamilton' retold in a style that dazzles and excites like golden standards won from the enemy passing in procession with the sun upon them."—The New York Times Book Review.
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