ACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED_
_St. Martin's Street, London_
1922

Mr. Gibson's new work is a tragic drama in blank verse, concerned with
three generations of a family of Northumbrian shepherds. The title,
'Krindlesyke,' is taken from the name of the lonely cottage on the fells
where they live and the incidents of the story pass.

While 'Krindlesyke' is not in dialect, it has been flavoured with a
sprinkling of local words; but as these are, for the most part, words
expressive of emotion, rather than words conveying information, the
sense of them should be easily gathered even by the south-country
reader.

_Some Press Opinions_

_The Poetry Review._--'A new book by Mr. Wilfrid Gibson must always
arouse interest, for his genius has been displayed in such varied
forms that one can only wonder what new development, what new
blending of his great qualities may appear.... In "Krindlesyke" he
may be said to have astounded us all by achieving the seemingly
impossible combination of the diverse qualities he has hitherto
displayed separately.... Ezra Barrasford and his sons appear, amidst
the wreck they have made, wonderfully convincing characters.... The
women are no less convincing--good-hearted, toil-worn Eliza, driven
to "nagging" by her husband and sons; Bell Haggard, a truly
wonderful study; Judith, who has learned much wisdom from bitter
experience. As to the language, it is wonderfully true to country
life and character.'

_The Daily News._--'There is much breadth of vision and much of that
bitter wisdom that is yet half beauty in this poem.'

_Mr. Laurence Binyon in The Observer._--'"Krindlesyke" is at once
the most ambitious and the strongest work that Mr. Wilfrid Gibson
has given us. It is a dramatic poem, firmly designed, and carried
out with abundant energy and power.'

_The Times Literary Supplement._--'The poet of deep and
self-forgetful feeling must, we venture to think, survive when
mannered muses are forgotten. Mr. Gibson is such a poet.... It is
his distinction to belong to the school of Wordsworth in an age
which is generally too clever, hasty, and conscious to wait upon
"the still sad music of humanity." ... "Krindlesyke" is a notable
achievement of the sympathetic imagination.'

_Prof. C. H. Herford in The Manchester Guardian._--'Bell's talk
is full of salt and vivacity, a brilliant stream in which city
slang reinforces rustic idiom