Legends
By AMY LOWELL
Second Printing
"I read 'Legends' last night, and again this morning. I like them the best of all your poems.... I like best Many Swans, which I have read twice and which I feel really speaks inside my unexplained soul. I should not like to try to explain it, because of the deep fear and danger that is in it. But it isn't a myth of the sun, it is something else. All the better that we can't say offhand what. That means it is true. It rings a note in my soul."—D. H. Lawrence.
"The subjects fit the poet like a glove.... The book is highly original, immensely interesting, and in its choice of themes, of the first significance."—Prof. John Livingston Lowes in The New York Evening Post.
"These clever dramatic tales are so brilliantly successful that we can only hope for more of their kind. Here is a canvas broad enough for the strokes of that untiring brush! Both in subject-matter and technique Miss Lowell has surpassed herself in these legends."—John Farrar in The Bookman.
"Miss Lowell builds—or composes—her poems as well as a painter of the first rank.... Her verse becomes increasingly supple.... I cannot say pompously that this latest volume contains Miss Lowell's best work, but it contains her work that I like best.... She is, at any rate, one of the three graces or nine muses upon whom our poetry stands or falls."—Malcolm Cowley in The Dial.
"There is no writer in America to-day, of either prose or poetry, who can manage such brilliant color effects in description.... In 'Legends' she has produced weirdly beautiful work that could never by any possibility be mistaken for the work of anyone else."—William Rose Benét in The Yale Review.
"'Legends' is, I think, Miss Lowell's best book ... the book that achieves the idiom, the convention that makes her work integral."—Padraic Colum in The Freeman.