mannered muses are forgotten. Mr. Gibson is such a poet.... It is
his distinction to belong to the school of Wordsworth in an age
which is generally too clever, hasty, and conscious to wait upon
“the still sad music of humanity.” ... “Krindlesyke” is a notable
achievement of the sympathetic imagination.’

_Prof. C. H. Herford in The Manchester Guardian._--‘Bell’s talk
is full of salt and vivacity, a brilliant stream in which city
slang reinforces rustic idiom, and both are re-manipulated by
inexhaustible native wit. She is the most remarkable creation in a
gallery where not a single figure is indistinct or conventional....
Mr. Gibson’s essay--for there is confessedly something experimental
about it--must be reckoned, with those of Mr. Abercrombie, to whom
“Krindlesyke” is dedicated, among the most remarkable dramatic poems
of our time.’

_The Aberdeen Journal._--‘“Krindlesyke” is incontestably the best
work Mr. Gibson has so far given us. It is amazingly good--vivid,
sincere, living, felt in the marrow of his bones and the beat of his
heart.... Here are peasants that belong to a world as true and as
deeply felt as those of Hardy and Synge. They are provincial only in
the sense that Wordsworth’s dalesmen and women are provincial; that
is, they are, in the true sense, universal.... No recent work is
more worth reading.... Mr. Gibson has fashioned for his peasants the
rich, racy, coloured, vigorous speech that is essential to them. No
thing of book this.... As peasant talk it rings true; its rich tang
is a rare delight.’


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