SOURCE: A Review of Wild Cherry, in The Outlook, Vol. 136, No. 11, March 12, 1924, pp. 439-40.

In the review below, Morton praises the quality of Reese's work and laments that she has failed to garner critical attention.

Of late our ears have been filled with the noise of new names—to the extent of drowning out altogether the thin sound of names that are not noisy and that are no longer new. In the circumstances, it is not surprising that a new book of poems by Lizette Woodworth Reese should issue from the press and take its place upon the shelves with no loud heralding or hoarse huzzas. Miss Reese and her readers would not have it otherwise; yet from such a disparity in the degree of attention a confusion of values is apt to result.

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