+ + + Atlan. 97: 90. Ja. ’06. 8090w.
“Wide and intimate scholarship and a rare insight born of a lifetime of close fellowship are met together in this work.” Frances Duncan.
+ + – Critic. 49: 183. Ag. ’06. 1640w.
“Professor Palmer’s essays are terse, direct, and pithy, felicitous in their combination of tireless scholarly research and infectious enthusiasm.”
+ + + Dial. 40: 129. F. 16, ’06. 410w.
“He has run the risk of misleading the general reader by imposing upon the arrangement an interpretation of the poet’s character which is peculiarly his own, and unsustained by internal or external evidence.”
+ + – Ind. 61: 1164. N. 15, ’06. 100w. Lit. D. 32: 209. F. 10, ’06. 780w.
“Excellent as an annotator, the present editor does not appear to us so happy as a biographer.”
+ + – Lond. Times. 4: 456. D. 22, ’05. 2050w.
“It is probably the most complete, and critically speaking, the final edition of the English poet’s works.”