“The author of this brochure, which as a plea for the rights of the Mexican people is fundamentally admirable and excellent, employs a great deal of the hammer-and-tongs method of his previous volume, ‘Barbarous Mexico.’ Nevertheless the booklet is a timely summary of information concerning the facts of the controversy.” G. B. Winton
+ − Survey 44:311 My 29 ’20 320w
TURNER, W. J. Dark wind. *$2 Dutton 821
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“‘The dark wind’ has been most cordially received in London and is especially interesting to students of poetry because it combines much of the colorcraft of the imagists with the melodies of the Georgians. Indeed, none of the young English poets has given us verse in which sense impressionism plays a more important part than it plays here.” (N Y Times) “Not the least interesting peculiarity of Mr Turner’s art is that he has made no startling departures into irregular verse forms. Nor does Mr Turner seek to startle by the choice of bizarre subjects. He writes on Haystacks and Sunflowers and Hollyhocks and Aeroplanes and Recollecting a visit.” (Bookm)
“There is no careless rapture in any of his verse: it has the studious rigidity of a cultivated and audacious craftsmanship, but with the magic of genuine inspiration.” R. M. Weaver
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“One might name such poems as In the caves of Auvergne, The search for the nightingale, The sky-sent death and Magic, which not only show Mr Turner at his best poetically but at his subtlest allegorically.” W. S. B.
+ Boston Transcript p10 My 15 ’20 600w