A volume of eighty sonnets and poems including personal tributes to Mr. Stedman, Mr. Yeats, Madame Bernhardt, and Helen Keller, Beethoven, Picquart, Whistler, E. N. Westcott, Stevenson, Millet, and Joan of Arc, and verses to England, Paris, and Buffalo, and to the “War for the liberation of Cuba.”
“Their chief merit is not spontaneity but thoughtfulness.”
| + | Critic. 46: 288. Mr. ‘05. 30w. |
“Of the excellence of Mrs. Coates’s sentiments there can be no doubt; her nature is warmly responsive to whatever is worthy in life and beautiful in art. But her expression does not often exhibit spontaneity or achieve distinction.”
| + | Dial. 38: 200. Mr. 16, ‘05. 250w. |
“Miss Coates’s verses may be described in a general way as topical.”
| + | Ind. 59: 218. Jl. 27, ‘05. 190w. |
“The best of the poems ... are those which deal with persons. These are always sympathetic to the essential quality of the man.”
| + | Nation. 80: 294. Ap. 13, ‘05. 160w. |
“The distinguishing marks of Mrs. Coates’ verse are simplicity and an unashamed gravity.”