“There are exquisite things in this volume, lyrical and meditational, and there is a graver burden, as of satiety, than we have been wont to find in the work of the poet.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 254. Ap. 16, ’07. 220w. | |
| Ind. 62: 1529. Je. 27, ’07. 370w. |
“It is decidedly good compared with anything but the best.”
| + | Lond. Times. 5: 392. N. 23, ’06. 520w. |
“He has an admirable poetic scholarship and an equally admirable intellectual integrity; his cup may be small, but he drinks from his cup. Yet Mr. Symons’s pride in his intellectual integrity is sometimes his undoing. His uneasy hatred of the commonplace and his constant endeavor to give it as wide a berth as possible involve such an expenditure of energy that in the long run he falls a prey to the very thing he would escape.”
| + + − | Nation. 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 590w. |
“His style, which in prose has so much distinction, in poetry lacks the barb of personality, the differentiating touch. His phrasing is restrained, delicate, often beautiful, but of magic, of color, of divinely unpremeditated art he is not the master.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 1030w. |
“An idea lies at the bottom of each of these finely chased cups offered by the poet. Poison, too, is not absent, the venom of love and life and death.” James Huneker.
| + − | No. Am. 185: 76. My. 3, ’07. 260w. |