"In her recent volume, 'Tendencies in Modern American Poetry,' Miss Lowell employs this method (the historical) with excellent results.... We feel throughout a spirit of mingled courage, kindness, and independence illuminating the subject, and the result is the note of personality that is so priceless in criticism, yet which, unhoneyed on the one hand or uncrabbed on the other, is so hard to come by ... her latest book leaves with the reader a strong impression of the most simple and unaffected integrity."—Helen Bullis Kizer in The North American Review.
"A new criticism has to be created to meet not only the work of the new artists but also the uncritical hospitality of current taste.... That is why a study such as Miss Amy Lowell's on recent tendencies in American verse is so significant.... Her very tone is revolutionary.... Poetry appears for the first time on our critical horizon ... as a sound and important activity of contemporary American life."—Randolf Bourne in The Dial.
"Its real worth as criticism and its greater worth as testimony are invaluable."—O. W. Firkins in The Nation.
"The feeling she has for poetry is so genuine and catholic and instructed, and her acquaintance with modern activity so energetic, that she is one of the most interesting and illuminating persons with whom to visit the new poets, led by the hand."—New Republic.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
Men, Women, and Ghosts
By AMY LOWELL