SOURCE: A review of Enzio's Kingdom and Other Poems, in The Sewanee Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, January-March, 1925, pp. 105-11.

In the following excerpt, Clarke appraises Enzio's Kingdom and finds it lacking in certain respects, but nonetheless judges it a competent poetic offering.

Mr. Percy's collection [Enzio's Kingdom, and Other Poems] is his third. Three of the poems he has included have already appeared in the Sewanee Review, the most notable one being A Letter From John Keats to Fanny Brawne. It is a moving document, many of whose pathetic verses linger in the memory. Enzio's Kingdom, another and much longer poem in blank verse, is a dramatic monologue of no inconsiderable power. Frederick II, of the Hohenstaufens, is its hero. He was the grandson of Frederick Barbarossa, and son of the German Emperor, Henry VI. His mother was the daughter of Roger I, the Norman King of Sicily, and...