By 1961, Garrigue, et al . " Louis Untermeyer added his voice : " I particularly like your fusion of observation and whimsicality, as well as your avoidance of the poetic stereotypes . " Rolfe Humphries was intrigued by Bartlett's poetic techniques : " I enjoyed your poems and admire many . . . . " About " Behold This Dreamer ", Gustav Davidson wrote : " I enjoyed reading these poems.
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[Mendelssohn ] has shown us that a Jew may have the amplest store of specific talents, may own the finest and most varied culture, the highest and tenderest sense of honour yet without all these pre-eminences helping him, were it but one single time, to call forth in us that deep, that heart-searching effect which we await from art [ . . . ] The washiness and the whimsicality of our present musical style has been [ . . . ] pushed to its utmost pitch by Mendelssohn's endeavour to speak out a vague, an almost nugatory Content as interestingly and spiritedly as possible.
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Ludovic Hunter-Tilsley in " The Financial Times " warns that despite " slow eddies of piano chords and gentle percussion & wintry piano, atmospheric orchestral arrangements and an intimate, torch-lit vocal from Bush, who, at 53, has acquired a warm huskiness to her voice & the album wobbles with the hammy Elton John duet " Snowed In at Wheeler St ", and topples over on the title track in which Bush invites Stephen Fry to dream up 50 terms for snow & 50 Words for Snow elucidates its wintry theme with flashes of brilliance but the odd treacherous icy patch too "; Vivascene's Marin Nelson has trouble with the songs'long running times and Bush's " forced whimsicality "; she declares that " Bush was going for snowy surrealism, but we re left feeling cold ."
