+ Booklist 16:235 Ap ’20
“These labored verses move us not at all. The book is full of echoes and infelicitous imitations. The book, in short, is full of clichés of thought and phrase.” H: A. Lappin
− Bookm 51:213 Ap ’20 100w
“The experience which has made Mr Roberts ‘old’ to his friends, has by a curious paradox kept him gloriously young in his dreams and visions. These poems, even embedding such grim interludes as is represented by the ‘Charing cross’ poems, are the poems of youth; but of a youth who has been trebly stored with the ancient wisdom and ways of the world.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 24 ’20 2150w
“Delightful poems chiefly on Arcadian themes.”
+ |Cleveland p52 My ’20 60w
Reviewed by Mark Van Doren
Nation 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 60w
“It is not enough to be high-spirited, and warm-hearted, and quick-witted, and brave and sensitive—and this poet is all these. To feel splendidly is one thing, to shape the feeling another. Mr Roberts at present is apt to throw off his feeling into rhyme without due concentration, as though assuring us of his exuberance and bidding us be content with that.” J: Drinkwater