SOURCE: A review of Solstice and Other Poems, in Poetry, Vol. XLIX, No. V, February, 1937, pp. 279-82.

In the following mixed review of Solstice and Other Poems, Warren states that "this collection brings nothing new."

It is not probable that Solstice and Other Poems will do much to alter the reputation of Robinson Jeffers, for this collection brings nothing new. It is hard to say what kind of newness we expect when we pick up another volume by an established poet whose work we have read in the past. To expect something new need not brand one as light-minded and frivolous, even though the appetite for novelty, once out of hand and without center, is a dangerous thing for poets and readers of poetry, and accounts perhaps for the fickleness of the public, the hysteria of reviewers, and the random experimentation of the poets themselves. Needless to say...