"Against the multitudinous array of daily verse our times produce this
volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I
cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been
surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The
Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of
subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects
(as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of
splendor she has made she will hardly outdo in their kind." -- Josephine
Preston Peabody, 'The Boston Herald'.
"For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of color these poems
remind one of Flemish masters and Dutch tulip gardens; again, they are
fine and fantastic, like Venetian glass; and they are all curiously
flooded with the moonlight of dreams. . . . Miss Lowell has a remarkable
gift of what one might call the dramatic-decorative. Her decorative
imagery is intensely dramatic, and her dramatic pictures are in
themselves vivid and fantastic decorations." -- Richard Le Gallienne,
'New York Times Book Review'.
"The book as a whole is notable for the organic relation it bears to
life and to art. Miss Lowell can find authentic inspiration equally in
the lapidarian stanzas of Henri de Regnier and in the color effects
produced by the flicking of the tail of the great northern pike. Her
work is always vivid, sincere, poetically energetic. Throughout it run,
in the quaint phrase of an old poet, 'bright shoots of
everlastingnesse'." -- Ferris Greenslet, in the 'New Republic'.
"Such poems as 'A Lady', 'Music', 'White and Green', are well-nigh
flawless in their beauty -- perfect 'images'." -- Harriet Monroe,
'Poetry'.