HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
By AMY LOWELL
Fifth edition
OPINIONS OF LEADING REVIEWERS
"Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed vers libre has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess,' 'Music' and 'The Precinct. Rochester,' a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind."—Josephine Preston Peabody, The Boston Herald.
"For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of color these poems remind one of Flemish masters and Dutch tulip gardens; again, they are fine and fantastic, like Venetian glass; and they are all curiously flooded with the moonlight of dreams.... Miss Lowell has a remarkable gift of what one might call the dramatic-decorative. Her decorative imagery is intensely dramatic, and her dramatic pictures are in themselves vivid and fantastic decorations."—Richard Le Gallienne, New York Times Book Review.