Erskine, John. Actæon, and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
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A book of verses, songs and sonnets which show a lyric gift and true poetic feeling.
“A series of poetical exercises, wholly derivative in merit, and of slight significance.” Wm. M. Payne.
| − + | Dial. 43: 93. Ag. 16, ’07. 110w. |
“His work is more notable for form than for substance; the most vital note in it is its fine sense of the apostolic tradition in poetry, its sentiment of poetic scholarship.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 199. F. 28, ’07. 350w. |
“Mr. Erskine has written much that is good since ‘Actaeon,’ but he seems for the most part to have fallen upon a more personal and minor strain.” William Aspenwall Bradley.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 132. Mr. 2, ’07. 500w. |