Lovers eminent in love Ever diversities combine; The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, The snake's articulated spine. Such elective elements Educate the eye and lip With one's refreshing innocence, The other's claim to scholarship. The serpent's...
In her lifetime Elinor Hoyt Wylie won notoriety for her unconventional private life and acclaim for her poems and novels. Carl Van Doren celebrated her as a "poet and queen of poets." Prominent members of the New York literary scene in the 1920s--such...
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 and William Howard Taft, Elinor Wylie became as...
Author of 'camping and tramping' adventure tales peopled with feisty, fearless girls and boys Author of 20 well received children's novels, Elinor Lyon ceased writing in 1975, at a time when the new emphasis on urban social realism in junior fiction had made...
The serious premise of The Inn at Lake Devine, Elinor Lipman's fourth novel, doesn't inhibit her gentle wit. Lipman, 47, lives in Northampton with her husband and son. Even your thorniest character ever, the antisemitic innkeeper Ingrid, softens a bit in the end. As...
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.
