Quotes from INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS CONCERNING DELBERT R. GARDNER

• Review of An “Idle Singer” and His Audience: A Study of William Morris’s Poetic Reputation in England, 1858-1900 in "Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century" by Thomas McFarland, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 16, No. 4, Nineteenth Century, Autumn 1976, pp. 693-727.

"This study is another one of those deserving dissertations that has found its way into print, and is . . . laudably professional on its own grounds. . . . It is perhaps more interesting than such ventures sometimes are, because Morris' reputation oscillated more than is usual--he had not one, but several careers, as poet, designer, prose writer, and socialist propagandist."

• "Rhyme and Reason," interview of Eddie Burch and Delbert Gardner by Greg Kocher, The News-Enterprise (Elizabethtown, KY), Section C, Weekend: TV, Movies, Books, Music, Feb. 1-3, 1985, pages 12C-13C.

"Delbert R. Gardner has a knack for taking the little things in life and turning them into stories with a moral. If his writing has an overall theme, it is 'a zest for life, is the only thing I can name right off. I have a lot of other concerns, like the search for identity, a concern with isolation.'"