SOURCE: Bacon, Martha. “Marvels of Interwoven Syllables.” Saturday Review of Literature 31, no. 16 (17 April 1948): 50.

In the following review of The Lion and the Rose, Bacon comments favorably on Sarton's execution and expression.

May Sarton is an artist of remarkable powers. She is one of those rare poets who, in making use of simple combinations of words—and of the words of our common speech at that—has achieved a vocabulary and style as distinctly her own as any poet now writing. As Lewis Carroll said, “It's a question of who shall be master.” In her case there is no question. She has drawn upon the whole stream of English literature to develop her subtle cadences and delicate, all-but-inaudible rhymes. One remembers the author of “I Sing of a Maiden,” and the most refined and expressive of the pre-Elizabethan poets. One wonders at the extreme simplicity of her statement (for...