Cirrus@Austlit

'...There is much that is weak, anti-climactic, and wholly inartistic in this little work; but our business is not so much to find fault with the work of Australian poets - that is easily accomplished - as to winnow the chaff for the infrequent grain of gold, to seek for a promise and a prophecy of the singing-time to come when, as we are told, Australia is to have great poets of her own. There is in Mr Sherard's verse a fire and a swing of rhythm which is not always found in locally-produced rhymes. There are two faults...the frequent references to Greek mythology, which has long been overdone in poetry. In Australian poetry it is incongruous...'