“We have spoken unkindly of Mr. Viereck, because we feel that he has fine poetic possibilities; and all his self-confidence fails to convince us that he is not wrong in adopting the now too conventional part of defiant Titan.”
| − + | Acad. 73: 58. O 26, ’07. 230w. |
“Perhaps no poet now writing is more proficient in the loud symphonious lay, and the quality of Mr. Viereck’s vigorous, if unhealthy imagination is of a sort to be expressed very perfectly in his reverberating verse.” Ferris Greenslet.
| + − | Atlan. 100: 845. D. ’07. 500w. |
“Mr. Viereck owes something to the world. His recent volume proves him to be indisputably a poet. It also indicates the lines along which he must develop in order to fulfil his promise. As yet his genius is greater than his talent. His verse has spontaneity, but not perfected art; and it behooves him to study carefully the master poets and grow to greater sureness of technical effect.” Clayton Hamilton.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 426. Je. ’07. 520w. |
“Despite the note of sensuality only too apparent in these compositions, they are remarkable productions, and we trust that their licentiousness illustrates what will prove but a passing phase of their writer’s expression.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Ind. 43: 91. Ag. 16, ’07. 600w. |
“At times he is amazingly clever; tho, like clever children, he pays up for it by periods of dire fatuity.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 158. Jl. 18, ’07. 250w. |