SOURCE: Review of The Old House in the Country, in American Literature, Vol. 8, January, 1937, pp. 350-51.

In the review below, the critic praises The Old House in the Country as among Reese's best writing.

Unfinished though they are, these two posthumous works of Miss Reese, who died last December, are two of the best things she ever wrote. The Old House in the Country is a group of fifty-two poems written in a ten-line stanza resembling the sonnet. Written apparently in 1913, they contain vivid memories of Miss Reese's early life. For the most part, the poems read like finished work, although, as Mr. Allen points out, there is “a blurred place here and there and a certain discursiveness at times; effects which one can be certain Miss Reese would herself have eliminated and welded into a whole had further time been permitted her.” Worleys is probably part of...