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Marie Luhrs (review date 1927)

SOURCE: “Fashionable Poetry,” in Poetry, Vol. XXX, No. 1, April, 1927, pp. 52-4.

[Luhrs appreciates Parker's honest look at society and her ability to craft poetry that appeals to the general reader.]

Enough Rope is what the well-dressed man or woman will wear inside their heads instead of brains. Here is poetry that is “smart” in the fashion designer's sense of the word. Mrs. Parker need not hide her head in shame, as the average poet must, when she admits the authorship of this book. For in its lightness, its cynicism, its pose, she has done the correct thing; she is in a class with the Prince of Wales, the Theatre Guild, Gramercy Park, and H. L. Mencken. And these somewhat facetious remarks are not intended as disparagement. It is high time that a poet with a monocle looked at the populace, instead of the populace looking at the poet through a lorgnette. It is high time that the shy,...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Edmund Wilson (review date 1927)
   2. The New York Times Book Review (review date 1927)
   3. Marie Luhrs (review date 1927)
   4. William Rose Benét (review date 1928)
   5. Garreta Busey (review date 1928)
   6. Henry Seidel Canby (review date 1931)
   7. Percy Hutchison (review date 1931)
   8. Harold Rosenberg (essay date 1931)
   9. William Rose Benét (review date 1936)
   10. Louis Kronenberger (review date 1936)
   11. Monica Redlich (review date 1937)
   12. Edith H. Walton (review date 1928)
   13. Arthur F. Kinney (essay date 1998)
   14. Arthur F. Kinney (essay date 1998)
4. Copyright

1. Dorothy Parker
2. How to Analyze a Poem
3. Poetry