“Mr Seymour is to be congratulated on having brought together what is on the whole a very interesting collection of verse. The list of contributors on the cover is in itself reassuring, and when we read the book we find that almost all of them are worthily represented.”
+ Ath p94 Ja 16 ’20 180w + Booklist 16:235 Ap ’20 Dial 68:538 Ap ’20 60w Nation 110:855 Je 26 ’20 180w
“Chesterton’s St Barbara ballad contains touches as magical as his Lepanto, although the sustained flight does not equal the earlier chant. Lawrence Binyon is represented by verses full of magic, Davies is his own naive self, Drinkwater is faultless and polished, Edith Sitwell is whimsically delightful, Muriel Stuart is sharply dramatic, and, best of all, W. W. Gibson appears in verses equal to his best.” Clement Wood
+ N Y Call p10 Je 20 ’20 900w
“To sum up, Mr Seymour’s book can be recommended to those who already possess collections of contemporary poetry in which poets of more modern temper are represented, or to those reactionaries who will read nothing but the most conservative verse.” Marguerite Williams
+ N Y Times p24 Ag 22 ’20 360w
“Mr Seymour has not exercised, or indeed sought to exercise, the faintest critical faculty in forming his collection.”
− + Sat R 129:391 Ap 24 ’20 950w
“There is a wholesome (one means esthetically, not morally wholesome) departure from the preciosity, the fine-spun, over-intellectual, finically phrased impressionism that was, in prewar days, the distinctly Georgian note.”