“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s not only in its culture, but in its gentle brooding over the dark and mysterious facts of life, and in the strong resolution which confronts the mischances of human experience.... Most of the poems in this volume [about forty in number] record Mr. Benson’s own reflections upon nature and life.”—Forum.
“The longer poems as a rule are the most successful, elegy and not epigram being Mr. Benson’s forte.”
| + | Ath. 1905: 2: 107. Jl. 22. 300w. |
“Tender, sincere, and refined, Mr. Benson’s verse appeals to our highest spiritual nature, and delivers its message with persuasive grace.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 39: 272. N. 1, ‘05. 460w. |
“Mr. Benson’s verse resembles Matthew Arnold’s: there is in it a warmth of sympathy redeeming it from austerity and even imparting to it a tone of friendliness and geniality.” Herbert W. Horwill.
| + | Forum. 37: 247. O. ‘05. 560w. |
“Mr. Benson maintains a deliberately chosen level of good verse. He is always correct, always perfectly plain.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 267. Ag. 25, ‘05. 320w. |
“Maintains the even comfortable level of his earlier books.”