“It is this collection that has now come to us ... as the first adequate representation in our tongue of a poet who has been compared with Shelley and Keats and Swinburne, Baudelaire and Heine.” Wm. Aspenwall Bradley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 407. Je. 22, ’07. 920w. |
“These little plays, cynically catching life at some unnatural angle, as they do, and cleverly, even brilliantly, done as they are, scarcely amount to a raison d’etre.” Richard Le Gallienne.
| + − | No. Am. 184: 421. F. 15, ’07. 1060w. |
“Quite evidently not the result of experience but due to a somewhat decadent outlook upon life.”
| + | R. of Rs. 35: 253. F. ’07. 180w. |
Viereck, George Sylvester. [House of the vampire.] †$1.25. Moffat.
7–28969.
“His vampire is a personage of immense literary distinction, who moves among his contemporaries like a god, yet all of whose works are actually the product of others whose minds he enters, whose mental creations he steals, and whose vigor he saps.” (N. Y. Times.) Every note of originality which he discovers in any one he appropriates, reproduces as his own, justifying himself with this: “I carry the essence of what is cosmic ... of what is divine.... I am Homer ... Goethe ... Shakespeare.... I am an embodiment of the same force of which Alexander, Cæsar, Confucius, and the Christos were also embodiments.”