By the same Author.
THE RED FLAG, AND OTHER POEMS.
Small 8vo, 6s.
"There are poetry and power of a high order in the volume before us. 'The Red Flag' is a terrible and thunderous poem. There are line sympathies with the sorrows of London life and wonderful knowledge of them. Perhaps one of the most solemn, awful poems of the present century is 'The Vision of the Desert.' … Let his imagination and metaphysical faculty be well yoked and guided by his own cultivated taste, and we must all admit the advent of a great poet."—British Quarterly Review.
"Mr. Noel's new volume marks a decided advance both in clearness of form and in melody of expression upon his earlier collection. He has succeeded in working out more unity of style, in harmonizing his thought and feeling, and in producing more sustained effects of music in verse without sacrificing individuality. … It is probably upon the compositions of the third and fourth sections that the reputation of Mr. Noel as a poet of marked originality will ultimately rest. The situation of 'The Red Flag' is finely conceived and powerfully presented. The sincerity of the poet, his intense feeling for the terrible, the realism with which he has wrought every detail of his picture, and his passionate sympathy with the oppressed, make the general effect of this poem very impressive. In 'Palingenesis' and 'Richmond Hill,' and the 'Sea Symphony,' Mr. Noel exhibits a rarer quality of artistic production. These poems are steeped in thought and feeling: Nature is represented with the most minute and patient accuracy, yet each description is pervaded with a sense of the divine mysterious life that throbs within the world. We need to travel back to the Bhagavadgita or to take Walt Whitman from the shelf if we seek to match the pantheistic enthusiasm of the climax to 'Palingenesis.' The promise of Mr. Noel's earlier poem in this style, 'Pan,' is here fulfilled."—Academy.
"There is much unpalatable truth in this satire, sometimes very cleverly put. … We do not think any lover of poetry can read 'The Water Nymph and the Boy,' 'Allerheiligen,' or 'Palingenesis,' without enjoying and admiring the exquisitely coloured word-pictures they contain."—Scotsman.
"A volume of very remarkable poems. There are a richness of thought, a power of language, a wild, rushing, cataract-like movement of melody, and an originality of purpose almost unique among the using poets of the age, in this volume. It will be Mr. Noel's own fault if he does not take the very highest rank among his contemporary poets."—Dundee Advertiser.
"A singular book, in which there is much real poetic force and feeling."—Graphic.
"Our skeleton sketch gives little notion of the earnest power of this noble poem. … The volume will reach and please a wider circle than the last, and we believe that future volumes will soon make the writer's name familiar to all appreciative readers of good English poetry."—Weekly Review.
"The lines we have italicized seem to us to be worthy of the very foremost of our living poets."—Freeman.
"The writer has more than that love of nature which spends itself on the beauty of form and colour he is alive to that more spiritual emotion which connects the aspects of outward nature with the aspirations of the human soul. … In spite of these faults, he is capable on occasions of writing noble passages."—Spectator.
" In striking contrast to the tone and manner and rhythm of the opening poem is the succeeding one, entitled 'April Gleams.' It is dainty as gossamer, fanciful, dreamy, suggestive of summer melodies and woodland brooks."—Morning Post.
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