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...first poem, "The Red Path", a narrative poem somewhat after the earlier manner of Mr. Masefield, does not measure up to Mr. Freeman's best work, One is discomfitted by lines such...
There are many of us who have this feeling for England and for all that springs from English earth. We go to the poems of John Masefield, Edward Thomas and Walter de la Mare for just this lovely, solitary thing that only England can give...
...untutored and violently prejudiced mind, there are five poems in the volume so much better than all the rest that they should be printed in red. They are: "On Growing Old", by John Masefield; "the Dawn Wind", by Rudyard Kipling; "The Mocking Fairy", by Walter de la Mare; "The Little "Uavern", by Edna St. Vincent Millany; "The Ploughman", by Karle Wilson Baker. One of these is a pair of second-best; one, a "Fairy laughing softly in the garden", one, a simple little song, both old and new; one, free verse. With half-a-dozen others, they hint what...
...poetry is tonic; to quote from Mr. McLane's admirable review of Masefield's "Enslaved," it is "piercing, clear poetry." F. W. MacVeagh's "Poem" is a brilliant bit of repression, phrased with that quiet, haunting conciseness which E. A. Robinson has celebrated. Mr. McLane's "Anniversary" is tender dedication to Fadeless Love and Beauty. In "A Symbol" Mr. La Farge sails the old glamorous seas to Xanader, quite as his swashbuckling Pirate does in "Santa Spirita Harbor." Merle Colby magically weaves the burthen and repetand of "Days Falling," or in "The Singer" takes up the old ballad...
With the publication of his "Old Huntsman," Sassoon sprang into instant prominence, and his "Counter Attack" has led critics to place him in a class with Masefield and Noyes...