Part 22 (1/2)
”There is not one of these 'Songs Unsung' which does not deserve to be read and re-read.”--_Glasgow Herald_, November 16th, 1883.
”In Mr. Morris's new volume we recognize the old qualities which are so dear to his wide circle of admirers.”--_Daily News_, December 4th, 1883.
”We may safely predict as warm a welcome for the new volume as has been accorded to its predecessors.”--_Ecclesiastical Gazette_, November 15th, 1883.
”Those who have followed Mr. Morris's career will be pleased to find that his poetic grasp, his argumentative subtlety, his tenderness of sympathetic observation, his manly earnestness, are as conspicuous and impressive as before.”--MR. BAYNE, _in the Helensburgh Times._
”The reputation earned by the author's books has been such as few men in a century are permitted to enjoy. Beginning with the first volume, it has gone on increasing.”--_Liverpool Mercury_, November 9th, 1883.
”For ourselves we dare hardly say how high we rank Mr. Morris.
This last volume is deserving of highest praise. In some of its contents no living poet, to our mind can surpa.s.s him.”--_Oxford University Herald_, March 8th, 1884.
”The gems of this volume, to our mind, are some of the shorter poems, which are full of melody and colour, saturated with lyrical feeling, and marked by that simplicity without which no poem of this cla.s.s can be called great.”--_British Quarterly Review_, January, 1884.
”The writer is never diffuse or vague or pointless, both his road and the end of it are always in view.”--_New York Critic_, January 19th, 1884.
”In one sense 'Songs Unsung' is more typical of Mr. Morris's genius than any of his previous works. There is in them the same purity of expression, the same delicate fancy, the same mastery of technique, and withal the same loftiness of conception.”--_Scotsman_, December 22nd, 1883.
”In some respects we must award him the distinction of having a clearer perception of the springs of nineteenth-century existence than any of his contemporaries.... What could be more magnificent than the following conception of the beginning of things....”--_Whitehall Review_, October, 1883.