Last Poems of Elinor Wylie

by Elinor Wylie, William Rose Benét (Foreword), Anita Miller (Editor)

When Elinor Wylie died in 1928 at the age of 43, she had built a considerable reputation as both a poet and a novelist. She was a voracious reader who idealized Shelley. Her own work is reminiscent of Dante, Webster, and Aesthetic Decadents of the late nineteenth century. It is deceptively simple, couched in traditional rhyme schemes. But it is sharply pointed and sensitive. Edmund Wilson described her as "the master of a divine language."

Genres: Poetry

110 pages, Paperback

Published August 30, 2005

About the author

Elinor Morton Wylie, born Elinor Morton Hoyt, was an American poet and novelist.

She was the grandaughter of Henry M. Hoyt and a sister to Nancy Hoyt.

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beneath Wylie’s aestheticism, there lurks a sardonic wit. She prizes beauty because all else is hollow.

[actionbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the 1943 edition.