“When we have put together all the poetical achievements of this tragedy, when we have set them beside its mastery of dramatic speech and structure and when we have dispassionately weighed against these excellencies its defects, we cannot hesitate to place it among all but the highest English dramatic poetry.”
| + + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 398. O. 6. 2160w. |
“The conception—a rare failing—is superior to the art or technique.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 207. F. 16, ’07. 280w. |
“We cannot praise Mr. Howard more highly than by saying that he is one of the very few living poets who stand in the great tradition. It is a book which every lover of good poetry must read and cherish.”
| + + | Spec. 97: 930. D. 8, ’06. 230w. |
* Howard, Oliver Otis. Autobiography. 2v. **$5. Baker.
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