He took a passage from Pater's Renaissance and arranged it in free verse form, and then a passage from sandburg's free verse and arranged it in prose, and tried unsuccessfully to show that the Pater passage did not become free verse, and that the sandburg passage did not become good prose.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
His mistake was in trying to take a passage from sandburg that had a patterned form, and in arranging the Pater passage into lines that were too brief.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
In his ability to concentrate a whole story or picture or character within the compass of a few lines, Mr. sandburg's work compares favorably with the best achievements of the recent successful American poets.
"A Northern Countryside"
Rosalind Richards