SOURCE: "A Confessional," in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Vol. III, No. ii, 1913, pp. 69-72

In the following review, Henderson offers sardonic commentary on The Kingdom of All-Souls.

The most amazing feature of this small volume of poems [The Kingdom of All-Souls, and Two Other Poems] is the preface. It is at once a gloss upon the text, and a confessional. At least without this gloss, the spiritual crises in the first poem, and a large share of the spiritual intention of the other two poems, might not be comprehensible; yet, to be exact, the preface gives us so much more insight into the poet's mind, that the poems are in reality a gloss upon the preface. I shall quote therefore from both. Mr. Woodberry says:

These three poems, though written without reference to one another, have a slight element in common which may perhaps excuse their being...