“This verse is remarkable for vigor and energy, form being sacrificed for content. An interesting feature is the group of seven poems on Lincoln by seven different poets.”
+ Cleveland p41 Ap ’20 60w
“Though it too often misses the authentic current, is too often led away into stagnant marshes, it is perhaps as good a map as we yet possess. The editor is a better conversationalist than guide.”
+ − Dial 68:667 My ’20 60w Dial 69:664 D ’20 60w
“It is a comprehensive and unusually satisfying collection.”
+ Ind 104:64 O 9 ’20 130w
Reviewed by R. P. Utter
Nation 110:237 F 21 ’20 420w
“The present reviewer’s quarrel with Louis Untermeyer’s ‘Modern American poetry’ is not so much because of its selections and omissions—both often very wise ones—as because of Untermeyer’s attitude of mind in his introduction. It is the typical attitude of the poets of our present little ‘renaissance,’ and perhaps one should hardly quarrel with it, but smile at it. You would suppose poetry that was honest, fresh, contemporary, had never been written before.” W. P. Eaton
− + N Y Call p10 Ja 18 ’20 1000w