“He is moved to write by unbelief in the ideals of other people rather than by the passionate force of ideals of his own. He is a sceptic, not a sufferer. His work proceeds less from his heart, than from his brain. It is a clever brain, however, and his satirical poems are harshly entertaining and will infuriate the right people. They may not kill Goliath, but at least they will annoy Goliath’s friends.” Robert Lynd
+ − Nation [London] 26:352 D 6 ’19 650w
“Mr Sitwell’s impressive title is about the only impressive thing in his book.” Clement Wood
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“There are passages in these pages which show that Mr Sitwell has embryonic poetic talent that may develop significantly, if he can get far enough away from the disturbing moods and reflections of war to give it free rein. He has the love of nature that is the poet’s best teacher. In ‘Argonaut and juggernaut’ Mr Sitwell is primarily not a poet, but a prophet. And his prophecy is full of flaming indignation and scorn.”
+ Springf’d Republican p9a F 29 ’20 1000w
“When Captain Sitwell is not occupied with telling home truths he discloses an imaginative mind and a subtle sense of the value of words. Nor can his word-pictures fairly be criticised as rhetorical; each embodies an unobtrusive idea. Thus his ‘Sailor-song’ expresses with Elizabethan freshness the Elizabethan delight in the wonders of ocean and the life marvellous.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p699 N 27 ’19 280w
SKELTON, OSCAR DOUGLAS. Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor. (Chronicles of America ser.) il subs per ser of 50v *$250 Yale univ. press 971
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