SOURCE: A review of “Hesperides,” in The Times Literary Supplement, July 16, 1925.

In the following excerpt, the reviewer finds a disturbing frenzy in Torrence's verse, but acknowledges he is an authentic poet.

Mr. Torrence is too anxious to escape being

Ground in an endless mill With life run dry in winning the foremost place 

really to touch the shores of the “Hesperides.” Into that “better place,” as he describes it,

on a golden shore of the sea, Dim, where the dancers move under apples of gold, Fruits of a happier earth, on a golden tree, 

he brings much of the stress and hustle which it was his aim to forget. Most of his verse is preoccupied with this rather frenzied flight from a mechanical and competitive world.

Nevertheless it is seldom relaxed. The fault of his romanticism is that at present it is too hastily sensational, but his instinct...