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"Whether poetry be defined as the rhythmical creation of beauty, as passion or eloquence
in harmonious numbers, or as thought and feeling manifested by processes of
the imagination, Alice Carey is incontestably and incomparably the first living American
poetess—fresh, indigenous, national—rich beyond precedent insuitable and sensuous imagery—of
the finest and highest qualities of feeling, and such powers of creation as the
Almighty has seen fit to bestow but rarely or in far separated countries."

"The genuine inspiration of poetic feeling, . . . replete with tenderness and beauty,
earnestness and truthful simplicity, and all the attributes of a powerful imagination and
vivid fancy. We know of no superior to Miss Carey among the female authors of this
country."

"Alice Carey's book is full of beautiful thoughts; there is draught after draught of
pure pleasure for the lover of sweet, tender fancies, and imagery which captivates
while it enforces truth."

" `Lyra and other Poems,' just published by Redfield, attracts everywhere, a remarkable
degree of attention. A dozen of the leading journals, and many eminent critics,
have pronounced the authoress the greatest poetess living."