"Howl is written," says Ginsberg, peering as he does through his glasses with a friendly intermingling of smile and solemnity, "in some of the rhythm of Hebraic liturgy - chants as they were set down by the Old Testament prophets. That's what it's supposed to represent - prophets howling in the Wilderness. That, in fact, is what the whole Beat Generation is, if it's anything, - howling in the Wilderness against a crazy civilization."
Attached is one of the first American reviews of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, it was penned by literary critic Gilbert Seldes (1893 - 1970):
"In essence The Waste Land says something which is not new: that life has become barren and sterile, that man is withering, impotent, and without assurance that the waters which made the land fruitful will ever rise again."
"A remarkable book is this latest by Sinclair Lewis. A novel, yes, but so unusual as not to fall easily into a class. There is practically no plot, yet the book is absorbing. It is so much like life itself, so extraordinarily real. These people are actual folk, and there was never better dialogue written than their revealing talk."
The 1913 book review of The Inside of the Cup by Winston Churchill (the other one) was so fraught with questions concerning the revolt of the Suffragettes and their disillusion with Christianity that the review was printed on the "Religion Page" of THE LITERARY DIGEST.
A favorable review of Evelyn Waugh's (1903 – 1966) triumph Brideshead Revisited
(1945):
"Looking up momentarily from our crystal ball, we predict that 'Brideshead Revisited' will set sales records and arouse more comment - critical and otherwise - than any book in many a day."
, F. Scott Fitzgerald's (1896 - 1940) 
