Booklist 17:23 O ’20 Dial 69:664 D ’20 60w
“A few months ago saw the birth of Mr Untermeyer’s book of ‘Modern American poetry,’ a work remarkable as showing the wide variety of theme and treatment which is at least one characteristic trait of American poetry today. Now Mr Untermeyer, for some obscure reason, essays the same feat with ‘Modern British poetry.’ And the result is conspicuously a failure.” J: G. Fletcher
− Freeman 2:116 O 13 ’20 1100w + Nation 111:278 S 4 ’20 50w
“The disproportionate amount of space allotted to the various poets gives a false emphasis: Mr Hardy, Mr Bridges and Mr Russell have each less than three pages, while Mr Chesterton has nine and Mr Kipling and Mr Noyes (Mr Noyes!) twelve each. The anthologist is tolerant of many schools; but his eye is more on the present than on the immediate past.” S. C. C.
− + New Repub 24:49 S 8 ’20 800w
“Aside from the small flecks the book presents itself as an admirable attempt and one that, through its delightful snapshots of the poets prefixed to each writer’s work, should inveigle readers into a closer scrutiny of British verse.”
+ − N Y Times p16 N 7 ’20 490w
“The editor’s taste is sensitive, and his curious bitterness towards the Victorians, which is the main drawback to his liberality, does not greatly affect the catholicity of the work.”
+ Review 3:321 O 13 ’20 280w + School R 28:630 O ’20 160w
UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. New Adam. *$1.75 Harcourt 811