+ Cleveland p86 O ’20 60w
“Mr Thorley displays more earnestness than achievement.”
+ − Dial 69:547 N ’20 70w
“There is perhaps no version in his book that is not accomplished poetry, and he has an especial richness, ease, and sonorousness in handling the frequent sonnet form. He is less happy when he rebuilds poems. But it is his whole book that places Mr Thorley definitely in the front rank of those artists among whom he wishes to be counted.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ − Nation 110:857 Je 26 ’20 280w
“Mr Thorley is sometimes a spirited translator. But his felicity is intermittent, and is sometimes dotted or crossed with infelicity.”
+ − Review 3:152 Ag 18 ’20 240w
“With a remarkable gift for translation, he has chosen his material with taste and with a scholarship free from pedantry.” E: B. Reed
+ Yale R n s 10:202 O ’20 60w
THORNDIKE, ASHLEY HORACE. Literature in a changing age. *$3 Macmillan 820.9