THE ACADEMY AND LITERATURE

London, England

3 December 1904

(pages 542 & 543)

REVIEWS.

VERSE

In Residence: The Don's Guide to Cambridge. By Aleister Crowley. (Cambridge: Elijah Johnson.)

And what shall one say of Mr. Aleister Crowley’s “In Residence”? His serious verse has given evidence of marked individuality and a very considerable, if undisciplined imagination. But this is that intolerable thing—an unhumorous man at play. If Wordsworth had wooed the muse of Calverley, the result might have been somewhat like this.