SOURCE: A review of Selected Poems of William Vaughn Moody, in The New England Quarterly, Vol. 4, October, 1931, pp. 797-801.

In the following essay, Matthiessen discusses the scope of Moody's ideas and the manner of their presentation in Selected Poems of William Vaughn Moody.

William Vaughn Moody has been unusually fortunate in the tributes paid him by his friends. John M. Manly was the editor of his collected works; Daniel Gregory Mason brought out his letters; and now, after twenty years have elapsed since the poet's death, Robert Morss Lovett, a contemporary of Moody's both at Harvard and later on the teaching staff at Chicago, has added his long essay of reminiscence [in an introduction to Selected Poems of William Vaughn Moody]. Moody's personality made a strong impact on all of them. They unite in praising his vigor, his grace, his humor, his courage, his austere reserve as well...