Reviewed by R: Le Gallienne
+ N Y Times p17 D 26 ’20 1700w
“The feeling that ‘Right Royal’ deserves to be placed below the earlier volume [‘Reynard the fox’] may be purely a matter of individual temperament on the part of the reviewer. In any case, it is a volume which occupies an enviable place in the field of modern poetry.”
+ Outlook 127:68 Ja 12 ’21 120w
Reviewed by G: D. Procter
+ Pub W 98:1893 D 18 ’20 320w
“The weather—cloud, sun, wind, and shower—is given more prominence and is better conceived in ‘Right Royal’; but to balance this, the unsuccessful passages are decidedly worse than those in ‘Reynard the fox.’ Another fault it seems to the present writer to possess, which the incomparable ‘Reynard the fox’ does not: it is a little monotonous. As a ‘galloping poem,’ however, it is certainly one of the best in English.”
+ − Spec 125:675 N 20 ’20 1200w
“He piles simile on simile and each simile is beautiful in itself, each is a patch of ornament stuck on, not woven into the fabric. Mr Masefield has told a brave tale bravely. If his courage had been like Right Royal’s, he would have dared to leave undecorated the beauty inherent in the tale.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p734 N 11 ’20 1050w