20–1009
The collection comprises the poet’s former volumes together with some new material. The contents are: The winter hour, and other poems; Songs of liberty, and other poems; Italian rhapsody, and other poems; Moments of Italy, and other poems; Saint-Gaudens: an ode; Later poems of occasion; Poems of war and peace; Poems of the great war; Poems chiefly of friendship or admiration; Later poems of the great war; Miscellaneous poems; Poems of Italy in war-time; Latest war-time poems.
“Many of his poems are occasional in character, and in these he displays his happiest inspiration. He has the professional after-dinner speaker’s talent for saying the right, the tactful thing about any person or event. Mr Johnson would make an excellent laureate.”
+ Ath p622 My 7 ’20 120w
“There is much sweetness—which never descends to mere prettiness—much grace and a good deal of fine thought finely expressed in melodious verse. Mr Johnson has long and deservedly enjoyed a special place of distinction in modern American poetry of the conservative tradition.” H: A. Lappin
+ Bookm 51:214 Ap ’20 60w
“To enjoy this volume you do not need to belong to any ‘school,’ nor to hold any poetic theory. All you need is to love poetry as the interpreter of the best things in nature and life.” H: Van Dyke
+ Boston Transcript p6 F 14 ’20 1900w
“All the poems are not of equal value. But the omnipresent dignity of Dr Johnson’s muse, his understanding love for Italy, and his unfailing respect both for his medium and his reader, bespeak alike the scholar and the citizen of the world.”