SOURCE: “The Stripped but Permanent Few,” in The Nation (New York), Vol. 137, November 15, 1933, p. 571.

In the following review of Pastures and Other Poems, Walton argues that while Reese's voice is not modern, her writing has such genius that she will appeal to the modern reader.

Miss Reese is a “stripped” romantic, I suppose, if we must define her philosophy. But she is very like this, her own stanza:

A rich fragility was theirs, Warm poverty of hue, The little that is more than much, The stripped, but permanent few. 

Pastures and Other Poems is going to throw its modern readers into a deep nostalgia for the simple, the just, the rightly beautiful. They will turn temporarily from the intricate poets of the city, the rhetoricians, to these old verities which Miss Reese so beautifully expresses. In a world where truth is temporal these verities seem terribly poignant, almost...