“As a love-story, the book is entirely ineffective. The style is not peculiarly Swinburnean, but it is naturally more vigorous, more telling than is common with writers of modern fiction.”
| + | Nation. 81: 147. Ag. 17, ‘05. 510w. |
“An agreeable kind of old-fashioned love story is involved in ‘Love’s cross-currents.’”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 465. Jl. 15, ‘05. 1050w. | |
| + — | Outlook. 80: 838. Jl. 29, ‘05. 120w. | |
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 759. D. ‘05. 60w. |
“While there is hardly a sentence which we cannot read with pleasure for its literary savour, its prim ironic elegance, there is not a page which we turn with the faintest thrill of curiosity.”
| — | Sat. R. 100: 184. Ag. 5, ‘05. 1090w. |
“As a novel, indeed, the book has many faults. There are too many characters, and their relationships are too complex, for the brief introduction to give the reader any clear grasp of the situation.”
| + — | Spec. 95: 157. Jl. 29, ‘05. 1130w. |
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Selected poems, ed. by William Morton Payne. Heath.
A volume in section VI. of the “Belles-lettres” series. The eighty poems selected are printed complete and classified under the headings: odes, poems of paganism and pantheism, selections from Songs before sunrise, lyrics, sonnets, personal poems, and metrical experiments, imitations, and parodies. An introduction, a chronological list of writings, an index of first lines and full notes are included.