“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V. D.
− Nation 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”
+ − N Y Times 25:16 Je 27 ’20 170w
“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins
+ Review 2:519 My 15 ’20 160w
“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than colored. Her style is good.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 100w
CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD). Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt 811
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