“Mr. Dawson is afire with patriotic purpose, but he is so didactic as to be at times dull.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 658. Je. 25, ’07. 260w. |
“The whole book moves briskly, and is exciting reading, although in the earlier part anything but exhilarating.”
| + | Spec. 98: 802. My. 18, ’07. 220w. |
Dawson, Coningsby William. Worker, and other poems. **$1.25. Macmillan.
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The distinctive notes of Mr. Dawson’s verse are “passionate sympathy with contemporaneous experiences and conditions, ardent feeling, and a forcible though sometimes unmusical expression.” (Outlook.)
“The author of these poems possesses genuine lyrical feeling, and his thought, where abstract themes are dispensed with, is graceful and not too reminiscent. A more serious flaw is the tendency, constantly noticeable, to manufacture refrains, as it were, in season and out. By multiplying instances of this device, the author has gone far to defeat his own object, and incidentally, to disfigure a book of considerable promise.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 725. Je. 15. 310w. |