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”Scmewhere within my thoughts I've heard ;
y A poem need be no longer than a word."
In each poem she shapes and lays bare one image, emotional or _
intellectual, and She does it with Such brevity, simplicity, definite- `
ness and beauty that it appeals nrt only to students and lovers of ‘;
verse but also to those who do not know poetry and even to those who f
do not usually like it.
She expresses the viewpoint of an introspective woman, yet ·
among the greatest admirers of her work are some of the leading ,
men critics of English and American poetry. - j
CRITICAL ESTIMATES { E
Joseph Auslander in his introduction to Mrs. Eudy's book dated {
V July 3,1935, says: “The poems in Quarried Crystals are out from living {
y matrix. They are fine as frost, as frugal as winter moonlight, and V Q
' strong as a leaf or a mountain." l
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Edwin_Mims in his book, Adventurous America, written before {
Mrs. Eudy published her volume says: "or to find in Louisville Hary F
Cummings with her two hundred working wonen who are treated as ·t\#‘ i_
nmmbers of a family making artistic dresses from individual designs, ld »l
and in her leisure moments writing poetry that is more like that of Q Q
Emily Dickinson than any poetry that is now being written and that is v {G Q
yet individual enough to stand on its own merits.” _ y ijgg E
Zona Gale in 1930 wrote regarding Mrs. Eudy's early poems: "They Q
are the new things newly done in an immortal way." Q
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Joseph; Campbell, critic and professor of English at Hunters {
College, New York City, is quoted in the Louisville Herald-Post, I
Hzvember 9, 1930: "Thoro are three requisites to the art of *riting .·.’ l
P0€tFy; every poem needs to have, first, clarity; second, color; {
J third, significance., The style of Hrs. Eudy includes the require- Q
ments; in addition her poems are extremely original and very ` ` l Q
` beautiful·" _ r Q
Edwin Markham in the same paper for April l, 1952, is quoted as i
Saying: "Mary Cummings Eddy is a true poet. She has the true concept- 5
ion of poetry and also possesses the power of expression. I have no é
d0¤bt her work will leave its mark on this time·" {
The Courier-Journal, September 8, l935, quotes John Erskine as »
· $?Yi¤g= "She can write,_by Jove; Each poem has its individuality i
and Style.” George Madden Martin in the same issue of this pipe?
_ S&YS¢ "TheSc 'Crystals' of thought convey the feeling of being
I Pfecipitates from emotional experience. Those who know the author are
&°·`“'gI`€ l3l'1~€1”C she in unusual degree has touched the life OI" EEG? dqjf,
v that she writes out of a deep and wide experience in many countries of ‘ é