HILLYER, ROBERT SILLIMAN. Five books of youth. *$1.50 Brentano’s 811
20–7792
“Mr Hillyer’s five books are headed, A miscellany, Days and seasons, Eros, The garden of Epicurus, and Sonnets. The range is remarkable, from the brilliant alliterative imagery of Esther dancing and the glowing medieval quaintness of Hunters to crisp snatches of epigram and passionate love sonnets. Some of the best work is descriptive of French scenes.”—Springf’d Republican
+ Booklist 17:61 N ’20
“His imagination is foot-feathered, and lifts his utterances, perhaps with more dignity than swiftness, on oracular journeys. It is an imagination that is singularly passionate about the business of beauty; a messenger that carries on an intercourse between the earth of man’s experience and the gods of his dreams.”
+ Boston Transcript p9 Je 5 ’20 1300w
“Mr Hillyer has written a beautiful poem that is streaked with a golden message. Upon it is the dewy freshness of youth’s passion for the ideal, sparkling with the fire and energy of an inspired visionary.” W: S. Braithwaite
+ Boston Transcript p7 N 24 ’20 1050w
“In this, his second book, there is fine performance and no little promise of greater things. He stands, as craftsman, upon the ancient ways, and reminds one at times of the cool lucidity of Matthew Arnold (and, at times, of the jeweled intensity of Rossetti). He is especially successful in the sonnet.”