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These things are what the
critics say of it:
Hamilton Wright Mabie, the Fore
most Critic in America, Says:
81 think The Wayfarer' an I'M
usually good piece of verse. 1t
appealed to my imagination,
which average poetry does not
do"
Charles Francis Richardson, Author
of american Literature" Late Pro-
lessor of Literature in Dartmouth
College Long Ago Wrote of One of the
Poems in This Book:
Vengeance is Nine rises to real
tragic power The idea of a soul
seeking continuous revenge in the
beyond is one that gives large
play to the imagination"
The Boston Daily Advertiser, After
Crediting These Poems with "Great
Beauty Both in Color and Rhythm"
Says:
Blue Hills Beyond the Green
is perhaps the simplest bit of
verse in the book, yet it has the
charm of touching with sympathy
and delcacy of coloring an expe-
rience common to all.
perhaps the Seven Songs of
Evening show best the authors
power of description.
These sonnets have all the mys-
terry of light and shadow, silence
and sound which belongs to an
evening in country town.
Passages from The Bells of
Eternity remind strongly of Poe's
masterpiece, The Bells"
The Hartford Courant with Refer
ence to Sir Walter Scott says:
"Mr. Hewitt reminds us a little
of the great Scotch poet and nov
elist. He sets in simple effective
measure some mythical legends of
wraiths and ghosts. The Gawky'
and The Shepherds Daughter are
merry and even humorous pas.
torals"
The Cincinnati Times-Star Says:
"Singularly musical are the verses
of Arthur Wentworth Hewitt in
Harp of the North. There are
songs of love, of the soul and of
nature, all of marked lyric quail
ity and lofty in sentiment.
The Buffalo Commercial Describes the
Book Thus:
"'Harp of the North is a collec-
ton of verses by Arthur Went
worth Hewitt. They express in
well-written poesy the authors
conception of the dashing of cold
sea waves against bleak towers
and rocks, love bearing winds
over sheep pastures and mill
streams, and run the gamut of
fancy, now bright and now NOR
bid"
These things are what readers
of the book have written to
the author, unsolicited and
of their own accord:
A Professor of Literature in One of
the Most Famous Universities of
America Writes:
There certainly is good deal
of beauty and good deal of mu-
sic in your lyrics, They are rem
iniscent of Poe. The poems / II
like best are "A Song of Her. The
Wayside Tree, Blue Hills Be
yond the Green, In Shadow
land"
IN Editor of One of the Great Stand
ard Magazines Writes: II
'T have read your poems care
fully, and with a great deal of
pleasure. They are well worth it.
| am usually somewhat pessimis-
tic when / get group of verses,
because usually the verses are SO
bad. | found yours possessed of III
distinct merit To begin with,
they are not commonplace. You
have poetic feeling and poetic
ideas" Ill
A Poet Writes:
81 delight in finding eternity packt
into a single phrase or line. I Ill
think Norma Thornton is the
masterpiece of the collection. 1t
deserves place up beside 'Waly,
Waly, Love Be Bonny,' and Sir iii
Patrick Spens." Later the same
writer saws: "The little volume
makes more of a home inside me
all the time. Some poems ! had
read only once when ! wrote be-
fore grow better with re- and re-
re-reading. Vengeance is Mine Is
full of great, wild imagery"
n Artist and Musician Writes Of the
Poems in Harp Of the North: III
They are music. they are pic
lures, they are the poems
! like best of any poetry in all
this world"