SOURCE: A review of The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, in MLN, Vol. XLV, No. 3, March, 1930, pp. 200-03.

In the following review, Hudson provides a mixed assessment of Agnes M. C. Latham's edition of The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh.

Miss Latham has performed well a task which wanted doing. Hannah's edition of Ralegh (with other poets) was not revised after 1870. And though the sixty years which have passed have yielded nothing so important as the fragments of Cynthia, which Hannah gave to the world, yet there have been discoveries, some of them made by Miss Latham herself. Hers is the definitive Ralegh,—and will be, unless such findings as now are scarcely to be dreamed of antiquate her work. She has toiled patiently at the tantalizing problem of the Ralegh canon; and has gone beyond previous investigators in hunting down manuscript copies of his work. By bringing...