SOURCE: "Richard Middleton," in The Spectator, Vol. 109, No. 4390, August 17, 1912, pp. 238-39.

In the following review, the critic characterizes Poems and Songs and The Ghost Ship, and Other Stories as "remarkable, "praising Middleton's technical excellence and sensitivity.

Richard Middleton was a young English writer who died a year ago in Brussels at the age of twenty-nine. He had never published a book, and his work consisted of a few poems, essays, and short stories in the pages of several contemporary journals. Happily there are a few people left who appreciate good literature, and in [The Ghost Ship, and Other Stories and Poems and Songs] we have a collection of the tales and poems. They are in the highest degree remarkable; remarkable in mere accomplishment, for no younger writer of our day has excelled Middleton in the technical arts of verse and prose, and more remarkable still for their strange...