Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928)

An American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensuous poetry.  If her poetry is derivative of anyone, though, that would be of the British Romantic poets, and particularly of Shelley, whom she admired to a degree that some critics have seen as abnormal.
 

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