SOURCE: A review of Strange Holiness, in Times Literary Supplement, No. 1750, August 15, 1935, p. 516.

In the following excerpt, a reviewer commends the theme of Strange Holiness.

For Mr. Coffin whatever lives is holy and in the longest poem in this collection, entitled "First Flight," he records how he felt "something solemn, something like holiness" in the airplane in which he first took his seat. But while he does full justice in this poem to the cosmic reaches of the air, it is typical of him to turn away soon from these and let his vision pass lovingly over the land unrolled beneath the plane with its small towns and woods and fields and houses that "did not hurry." Far from forgetting his old fidelities in the intoxication of speed and space,

From his high station Tristram saw that things
 Which meant most to a man were very old,
 A...