Among the contents of this book are poems reprinted from Poetry, the Forum, Contemporary Verse, Boston Transcript, McCall’s Magazine, and “Victory,” Mr Braithwaite’s anthology of peace poems. The author employs both free verse and regular meters. Titles are: Songs from the journey; A New England church; To a pair of scarlet tanagers in the square; Soldiers, behold your beauty; The valley and the shadow; The holiday; A song of fulfillment.
+ Booklist 16:336 Jl ’20
“Mr Barrett is one of the quieter young American poets who is not likely to be very much talked about, but who will leave an influence upon his readers wherever his book finds them.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 550w
“Novel conceits of fancy expressed with appealing grace and fraught with the glamour of dreams.”
+ Cleveland p85 S ’20 30w
“Once only, in ‘Songs from the journey,’ does Mr Barrett touch authentic poetry—in the suave and colorful ‘The vase.’ The book is not distinguished verse.”
− + N Y Call p11 Ag 1 ’20 210w
“Mr Barrett is a poet of great promise, a spirit clear-eyed and keen.”