Elinor Wylie Summary

Elinor Wylie lived a more sensational life than most heroines of fiction. Born into an aristocratic Philadelphia family prominent in national politics and close to two Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt a... Read more

In the following excerpt from a review of Nets to Catch the Wind, Millay describes Wylie as a poet of abundant talent and excellent taste. The publication recently of Elinor Wylie's Nets to Cat... Read more

In the following excerpt from his collection of critical essays, Southworth faults Wylie's poetry, suggesting that it lacks the necessary quality that would enable it to maintain the status of ... Read more

In the following, Gray analyzes Wylie's ability to combine Imagistic techniques and Romantic themes. It should be obvious that quite as much banality, raw emotion, crudity of image, and bathos ... Read more

In the following excerpt from her book of feminist criticism, Watts compares Wylie to other female poets, including Edna St. Vincent Millay and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Millay and Wylie were good f... Read more

In the following excerpt from her full-length critical study of Wylie's poetry and prose, Farr analyzes poems from Incidental Numbers and Nets to Catch the Wind. Incidental Numbers, a small col... Read more

In the following review of Black Armour, Cowley praises Wylie 's ability to combine "intellect and emotion " and compares her poetry to that of T. S. Eliot. Fantasy is the quality... Read more

In the following review, originally published in the "Critics Almanac" of The Spyglass, Davidson considers Angels and Earthly Creatures to be Wylie's best book of poetry and prais... Read more

In the following review of Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie, Tate acknowledges Wylie's technical skills but suggests that her poetry lacks distinguishing features that would establish her as a s... Read more

In the following excerpt from the Annie Talbot Cole Lecture of Wheaton College, Benét describes his late wife as a "great poet," possessed of a natural talent and love of the Engl... Read more