| + + | Spec. 94: 621. Ap. 29, ‘05. 710w. |
[*] Robinson, Edwin Arlington. [Children of the night], [**]$1. Scribner.
“President Roosevelt has praised this book of poems, finding in them ‘an undoubted touch of genius.’ To this fact no doubt is due the reprinting of a little book now eight years old.” (Critic.) “The mood is usually serious, and quite removed from the too sweet and pensive sadness of one who invokes grief as a becoming adjunct to his verse.... The numerous poems of religious feeling are the product of a wholesome faith.”—N. Y. Times.
[*] “We do not dispute the President’s dictum; but we suspect that he has not kept ‘au courant’ with the flood of American minor verse. Had he done so, he would think twice before applying the word ‘genius’ to Mr. Robinson, notwithstanding the author’s ‘curious simplicity and good faith.’”
| + | Critic. 47: 584. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “Mr. Robinson’s work has never got half the attention it deserved.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 314. N. 16, ‘05. 110w. |
[*] “Is a very pleasant little book. No minor poet of the day is less indebted to poetic conventionalisms than Mr. Robinson, or more securely himself.”
| + | Nation. 81: 507. D. 21, ‘05. 250w. |
[*] “They are nearly always individual, and show little tendency to echo poets of a larger gift which too often is the hall mark of the minor poet.”