"With instinctive dramatic and poetic power, Mr. Rice combines a knowledge of the exigencies of the stage." _Harper's Weekly._
"It is safe to say that were Mr. Rice an Englishman or a Frenchman, his reputation as his country's most distinguished poetic dramatist would have been assured by a more universal sign of recognition." _The Baltimore News_ (_writing of all Mr. Rice's plays_).
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"Mr. Rice's work betrays wide sympathies with nature and life, and a welcome originality of sentiment and metrical harmony." _Sydney Lee._
"In his lyrics Mr. Rice's imagination works most successfully. He is an optimist--and in these days an optimist is irresistible--and he can touch delicately things too holy for a rough or violent pathos." _The London Star_ (_James Douglas_).
"Mr. Rice's highest gift is essentially lyrical. His lyrics have a charm and grace of melody distinctively their own." _The London Bookman._
"Mr. Rice is keenly responsive to the loveliness of the outside world, and he reveals this beauty in words that sing themselves." _The Boston Transcript._
"Mr. Rice's work is everywhere marked by true imaginative power and elevation of feeling." _The Scotsman._
"Mr. Rice's work would seem to rank with the best of our American poets of to-day." _The Atlanta Constitution._
"Mr. Rice's poems are touched with the magic of the muse. They have inspiration, grace and true lyric quality." _The Book News Monthly._
"Mr. Rice's poetry as a whole is both strongly and delicately spiritual. Many of these lyrics have the true romantic mystery and charm.... To write thus is no indifferent matter. It indicates not only long work but long brooding on the beauty and mystery of life." _The Louisville Post._
"Mr. Rice is indisputably one of the greatest poets who have lived in America.... And some of these (earlier) poems are truly beautiful." _The Times-Union_ (_Albany, N. Y._)
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