SOURCE: A review of “Hesperides,” in The New York Times, Vol. LXXIV, No. 24606, June 7, 1925, p. 7.

In the following review of Hesperides, Gorman praises Torrence's achievement in poetry with regard to both “meaning and meter.”

Once in the dear dead days beyond recall (1900, to be exact) a small book appeared under the weighty title of The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai. It was the work of one Frederic Ridgely Torrence. It was his first volume of poetry. And now, after the passage of twenty-five years, Mr. Torrence presents the public with his second volume of poetry, Hesperides. Such a hiatus in a poet's career is unusual, although, to be strictly accurate, Mr. Torrence has not been entirely silent. He has published three volumes of plays in the interim, and occasional poems from his pen have appeared at wide intervals...