“Mr. Wilkins is too much of an advocate to be a wholly convincing historian and there are signs that he has written in some haste. He deserves full credit for the tact, sensibility, and good taste with which he has performed it.”
+ + – Outlook. 81: 1084. D. 30, ’05. 310w.
Wilkinson, Florence. Far country: poems. **$1. McClure.
“Miss Wilkinson ... is before all, a romanticist, the narrative and ballad are her predestined forms, and she handles them with all the freedom of a native gift.... In phrasing and imagery ‘The far country’ ... shows a freshness and imaginative vision that bespeak the poet’s hand and eye, and above all a joy in the art.... Miss Wilkinson is not a sonneteer ... but to show that she knows wherein her strength lies, there are few sonnets in the volume. It is chiefly the human riddle which haunts her eager, questioning mind.”—N. Y. Times.
“A tendency toward forced forms of expression and an indulgence in mere emotional ejaculation appear to be the most noticeable fault of what is, on the whole, a volume of quite exceptional richness and strength.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + – Dial. 41: 68. Ag. 1, ’06. 470w.
“A volume of uneven, but on the whole, singularly poetic verse. A little sharper discrimination between profusion and diffusion, a little sterner renunciation of unreal and extraneous adornment, a little firmer grasp of organic structure, and Miss Wilkinson will be a poet to reckon with.”
+ – Nation. 83: 145. Ag. 16, ’06. 230w.
“Miss Wilkinson is so rarely unsure in metre, has indeed such command of herself in the most intricate forms, that when one comes upon a jarring line he knows it to be willful heresy rather than unconscious error.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.