SOURCE: "Abstruse Considerations," in Poetry, Vol. CIV, No. 4, July, 1964, pp. 243-44.

In the following positive review of A Peopled Landscape, Carruth explores the imitative structure of Tomlinson's verse.

At first, [A Peopled Landscape] offers the reader a curious, even excessive, medley of impressions. Its appearance is characteristic of the English taste in thin volumes of poetry; dun-white paper, type in an Old Style face, a binding of pale yellow linen stamped in gold leaf; the whole giving off an iodoformic smell which is always present, I don't know why, in new books of English manufacture. Appalling as it sounds, the composite is not unattractive. Then, however, one opens the book and turns the pages, finding that the poems, resting unread on the page, give a totally different impression, an American impression; and one remembers that Charles Tomlinson has been visiting in our country at some length recently. In...