赫勃脱·里德爵士是他的同时代人中最不平凡的一个。——哈罗尔德·尼科尔生:“温和的无政府主义者”,刊于1963年5月12日伦敦《观察家》。艺术在我们这个技术文明中正在打败仗,而且我对它们不抱任何希望。诗人已成为一种时代的错误。他甚至连一个小丑的娱乐价值都没有。他的诗被越来越少的同行诗人读着,而艺术协会和英国广播公司只给他几片人为的月桂。严肃地 Sir Herbert Reid is the most extraordinary of his contemporaries. - Harold Nichollson: “Moderate Anarchists”, London Observer, May 12, 1963. Art is defeating in our technological civilization, and I have no hope of them. The poet has become a mistake of the times. He does not even have the entertainment value of a clown. His poems were read by fewer and fewer fellow poets, and the Art Association and the BBC gave him only a few artificial laurels. seriously