THE SPECTATOR

London, England

29 January 1921

(page 148)

POEMS WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.

Lillygay. [By Victor B. Neuburg] (The Vine Press. 5s.)—The anonymous poems in this anthology are mostly written in time-honoured metres, and they are of a studied and deceptive simplicity reminiscent of the ancient ballades.

"And Oh! May the fields be pearly

With dawn and virgin dew,

And may my love come early

And may my love be true"

might have been written by a minor poet in any age, yet the book in its essence is Georgian in the extreme, and its modernity is all the more startling for its camouflage. The wood-cuts which illustrate it recall the rhyme-sheets published by the Poetry Bookshop.