A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

"South African Bard", The Times Literary Supplement, 28 Jun 1957, p. 398 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EX1200311563/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=fddbdf01. Accessed 27 Jun 2019

The critic reviews Francis Carey Slater's new poetry collection. Of Slater's last collection, the critic writes "The history of his literary achievements, which grew from apparently unpromising circumstances, deepened the interest of the book; the honesty of the writing was evident in the varied quality of the poems. Some of them were old fashioned and derivative...but there were thers of special power." For this new collection, the critic suggests that Slater's "poetic character is complex; the romantic, the stoic and the satiric unite in it."