“Hers is a limited gamut, an obviously restricted range. Yet, within that range, her voice is pure, the art is skilful and the melodies exquisite. None of the younger singers has communicated with more charm her accents of soft delight mingled with a perturbed wistfulness. Even her more intense affirmations have a timid tenderness.” L: Untermeyer
+ New Repub 23:156 Je 30 ’20 550w
“‘The hesitant heart’ is a lovely collection of fragile lyrics. Miss Welles has a deft and magical touch all her own, a slight and restrained magic, but an authentic one.”
+ N Y Call p11 Ag 1 ’20 180w
“Miss Welles is no purveyor of novelties. She cannot be called original, or even inventive. Yet she has a magic of lyrical speech that gives the reader a sense of new delight and of a new personality in the world of lyric artists.”
+ N Y Times 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 180w
“Her technique is much like that of Miss Millay, although she is not so mature as an artist. But this is not to say that Miss Welles has imitated Miss Millay. She is very much herself.”
+ N Y Times p15 Ja 9 ’21 220w + Springf’d Republican p9a Jl 4 ’20 70w
WELLS, CAROLYN (MRS HADWIN HOUGHTON), comp. Book of humorous verse. *$7.50 Doran 827
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