Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 August 1975)
SOURCE: A review of The Peacock Poems, in Kirkus Reviews, Vol. XLIII, No. 16, August 15, 1975, pp. 990-91.
[In the following, the critic favorably assesses The Peacock Poems.]
Overlooking the fact that the plumed, strutting bird Shirley Williams so nearly identifies with happens to be male, this autobiographical cycle of poetry [The Peacock Poems]—Williams' first book—genuinely engages your sympathies. This is all about how "every woman is a victim of the feel blues, too" and it...
Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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