SOURCE: A review of A Vision of Giorgione, in The Bookman,London, Vol. 64, No. 379, April, 1923, pp. 45.

In the following excerpt, Bryant reviews A Vision of Giorgione.

These poems of Mr. Bottomley's—stories of Giorgione—were published in a collected edition twelve years ago in America. They now appear for the first time in this country [as A Vision of Giorgione]. As the works of Gordon Bottomley they have a passport to any country, but alas! there are no “Cartmell Bells” among them. It is a book of long emotional utterances on music, philosophy and love, but the startling clarity that Mr. Bottomley's admirers have learnt to expect of him is curiously lacking. And the use of expressions such as “porfection comes but once” gives one to think furiously; Jove nods outrageously sometimes.

Occasionally the old spark lights. At the beginning there is a charming dedication to his wife...