"The Belfast-Essex axis, coherent and productive in its whole extent. As Peter France remarked in his 'appreciation' that prefaces the Essex homage volume Word in Time (Burnett 1997), Arthur's abiding contribution was to have 'helped keep alive in the English-speaking world an awareness of cultures which lack the power of a nation-state and an army but nevertheless possess distinctive voices heard in the chorus (or cacophony) of world literatures'. Nick Round has affirmed that few people have been such authorities in and made such an influential contribution to a culture that was not their own native one. True, but Arthur would surely have qualified this, firmly but politely, by affirming that Catalan culture was his, in the sense that it is everybody's, a universal patrimony. He was consistently true to his holistic approach to the appreciation of all creative writing. While sympathetic to the politics of Catalanism, his contribution to the cause derived essentially from the fundamental values and criteria which put the major modern Catalan poets into the same frame as Mallarmé, Valéry, T. S. Eliot, or Machado, Neruda, or Heaney, Larkin…"

(Alan Yates: "Arthur Terry", dins "Arthur Terry: Five Tributes", Hispanic Research Journal (Londres), vol. 6, núm. 3, octubre 2005, p. 277-288)