 However, Randall Jarrell's review of the book in "Partisan Review" was much more measured in its assessment.Although Jarrell liked the handful of shorter poems in the collection, he was critical of the main characters in the epic, title poem, writing, "The people [in 'The Mills of the Kavanaughs'] too often seem to be acting "in the manner" of Robert Lowell, rather than plausibly as real people act ..