“A collection of translations, ‘by northern Hispanophiles, of Spanish poems into English verse,’ offered as an affectionate tribute to the Spanish poet of today, whether he writes in the old world or the new. Dr Walsh, besides contributing a large portion of the versions, has garnered almost eight hundred pages of translations into something like a chronological unity, providing the selections with short prefatory notes and interspersing them with some twenty-nine portraits of ancient and modern Spanish poets.”—Freeman
“With the material at hand he has produced a creditable collection that should be at the elbow of every Hispanic student.”
+ Bookm 52:274 N ’20 190w
“Masefield’s rendering of Gustave Adolfo Becquer’s ‘They closed her eyes,’ is one of the most beautiful poems in the collection.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ja 5 ’21 250w
“Catholic readers will especially rejoice to possess, in this delightful form, some of the most impressive work of the great Spanish mystical poets, Fray Luis de Leon, St John of the Cross, and St Teresa.”
+ Cath World 112:542 Ja ’21 270w
“A valuable book not alone for its well-arranged collection of poems, but for the fine reproductions of famous portraits and for the biographical notes.”
+ − Dial 70:233 F ’21 100w