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...poems have a decidedly mid-Victorian flavor and religious scent. Only as admirable examples of imagination and poetic color can they be placed on the bookshelves of the appreciative...
...poplar tree lifted and turned swaying outward and all quivered together, holding the night coolness. . . ." The Significance. Essentially Author Roberts writes with the talent of a poet rather than of a novelist. Creating in a prose form, she sometimes goes far beyond the facts of her narrative into a poetic interpretation of their significance in her characters. Her feeling for heart and flesh is so complete, her understanding of it so thorough and so articulate, that her book, flourishing a rich and rhythmic language, seldom loses its acute power. The Author, a native of Kentucky whither her ancestors voyaged with...
...door, with the Literary Guild as forest guide. He can never hope to equal the Poet of the People, but "Isolt of the white hands" fifty thousand times iterated is a respectable showing. The pleasantest part of it is that he has lost no part of his poetic dignity; he can still turn to Judge Public and say: "Nobody asked...
Some critics cry that here is built up a tragedy, weakened by a happy ending; but the happiness is a realistic accident arising out of the destruction of youth's defiant assuredness. Poetic writing, sensibility to the relationship between men and Nature, insight into the illogicality of human action, human destiny, project the reader into the inscrutable problems and emotions of life, receive critical praise...
...outstanding feature of the volume is its wide range of both of mood and subject--from pictures of Italy to songs of the Pueblo Indians. The book as a whole, will take its place as one of the best examples of Miss Lowell's extraordinary variety, vitality, and poetic genius...