Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it—they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.

Town Mouse, Country Mouse, p. 70 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)