Collected for the first time, Mr. Page’s poems could be launched with no better l’envoi than the author’s “fine confession of the faith of a minor poet:” “There is for a minor poet also a music that the outer world does not catch—an inner day which the outer world does not see. It is this music, this light, which, for the most part, is for the lesser poet his only reward.”
“So trained a hand as his could hardily fail to produce a creditable work, even in the unwonted medium of rhyme and rhythm.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 252. Ap. 16, ’07. 290w. |
“Poetic sensibility ... is very evident in Mr. Page’s verse, and he has an admirable command of traditional poetic tone.”
| + | Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 280w. |
“It is well modulated song, mellow as a Southern voice. While not varied in form nor experimental in meter, it is refined, smoothly textured, always melodious verse.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 480w. |
“The poems ring true; they have the quality of sanity throughout; they are conspicuously free from self-consciousness; and they are often happy in the ease and freedom of their phrasing.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 743. N. 30, ’07. 350w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 254. F. ’07. 50w. |