“Never has more elaborate care been manifest in biography than under Mr. Lucas’s most patient superintendence and competent companionship. The one defect that must be mentioned ... is the insistent preoccupation with Lamb’s enslavement to drink and tobacco.”

+ + – Ind. 60: 338. F. 8, ’06. 890w.

“Every shred of available material that may throw the faintest light upon the poet or his associates is turned and returned, until there remains apparently little or nothing to be unearthed in future.”

+ + Ind. 61: 1163. N. 15, ’06. 110w.

“Mr. Lucas writes in the long run with more light than warmth.”

+ + – Nation. 82: 304. Ap. 12, ’06. 2090w.

“Will be a mine of riches for those who care for one of the most interesting groups of writers of the last century.”

+ + Outlook. 81: 960. D. 23, ’05. 1140w.

Reviewed by Sidney T. Irwin.

+ + + Quarterly R. 204: 177. Ja. ’06. 1970w.