“The metrical version of Ecclesiastes is a piece of clever work, and furnishes many touches of genuine poetic insight.”
| + | Bib. World. 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w. |
“It is adapted rather to those of sufficient literary training to read a book by its feeling and atmosphere, as one listens to music.” George F. Genung.
| + | Bib. World. 29: 477. Je. ’07. 650w. |
“But forbearance ceases to be a virtue when called upon to applaud the forcing of any other piece of literature into the justly famed form of Omar’s quatrain.”
| − + | Ind. 63: 101. Jl. 11, ’07. 200w. | |
| + | Lond. Times. 6: 68. Mr. 1. ’07. 210w. |
“Despite some roughness, a successful bit of work—in its sympathetic insight as well as in its technical ability.”
| + − | Nation. 83: 395. N. 8, ’06. 290w. |
“Our one complaint is that many of the phrases in the original are in themselves poetry of so pure a quality that any other version seems odd and irreverent.”
| + − | Spec. 97: 179. F. 2, ’07. 120w. |