“An interesting and praiseworthy book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 248. Ap. 14, ’06. 280w. + + Outlook. 82: 807. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w. R. of Rs. 33: 764. Je. ’06. 50w. Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ’05. 70w.
Woodberry, George Edward. Swinburne. **75c. McClure.
A recent volume in the “Contemporary men of letters series.” The sketch is not a biography but “a subtle and subjective study not so much of Swinburne’s poetry as of his poetic impulses.” (Nation.)
Critic. 48: 459. My. ’06. 320w. + + Nation. 82: 58. Ja. 18, ’06. 1080w.
“The book is important not so much because of the accident of its being perhaps the first on the subject to be published in this country as because of an uncommon qualification of the author for his task. It is true that he has broad perspective and intimate knowledge, but of greater significance is the affinity of spirit between the poet and his critic.” Lewis N. Chase.
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 889. D. 16, ’05. 2110w. R. of Rs. 33: 383. Mr. ’06. 30w.
Woodberry, George Edward. Torch: eight lectures on race power in literature, delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$1.20. McClure.
Thru “The torch” “one increasing purpose runs. This purpose is the thought that there is a race-mind which slowly, unfalteringly, grandly, approaches through the centuries its final summation (if finality in this connection be conceivable) through a variety of channels, but chiefly through the treasure-stores of great literature.” (Reader.) “The work of the race-mind in literature, as it seems to Mr. Woodberry’s optimistic idealism, is not so much mere self-expression as self-conquest, liberation, racial euthanasia.” (Nation.) The title of the lectures are: Man and the race, The language of all the world, The Titan myth, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth and Shelley.