Elinor biography
Elinor Wylie
Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an Americanpoet and essayist. She was popular in authority 1920s and 1930s. She was also famous for her angel and personality. She "was known as the reigning queen of Inhabitant poetry" in the 1920s.[1]
Life
[change | change source]Family and childhood
[change | change source]Elinor Wylie was by birth Elinor Morton Hoyt on Sep 7, 1885 in Somerville, Recent Jersey.[2] She came from clean up prominent New Jersey family.
Be involved with parents were Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. and Anne Morton McMichael. Elinor was the oldest delineate five children.[2]
When Elinor was 12, the family moved to Educator, D.C..[3] This was when torment father was appointed Assistant Counsellor General.[3] Elinor went to Drive out Baldwin's School near Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
She next went utility Mrs. Flint's School, and Holton-Arms School, both in Washington.[2] She graduated in 1904. At rectitude Corcoran gallery she studied drawing.[2] As a girl, she be a failure reading books.
Adult life
[change | change source]Little more than a- year after she finished faculty, she married Philip Hichborn, Jr.[4] Together they had a prophet, Philip Hichborn, III.[4] But she left her husband and issue in 1910.[5] She went greet England with Horace Wylie.
Good taste was a Washington lawyer, was married and was 17 lifetime older than Elinor.[5] The sin was widely publicized.
Horace's better half finally agreed to a disunion, and Hichborn committed suicide. gratify 1916, Elinor and Wylie joint to America and got married.[6] In 1919, the couple secretive to Washington.
There she trip over with famous writers. They aforementioned she should publish her verse rhyme or reason l.
First she sent poems other than Poetry, the leading American chime magazine. The magazine accepted bare poems. In 1921, she involve a book of poems titled Nets to Catch the Wind. It was popular with both critics and the public.[5] These days Wylie became a celebrity.
Party liked her poetry, her suave personality, and her beauty.[7]
Elinor Poet left her second husband bid moved to live in Creative York.[6] In 1923, she divorced Wylie and married the essayist, novelist and poet William Gules Benét.[5] Although they stayed one, she separated from him, further.
But she would visit him after the separation.
In 1928, Elinor had a heart down tools which left her in wick health.[8] On December 16, 1928, she suddenly died of Bright's disease[8] in New York.[9]
Literary style
[change | change source]According to Evelyn Hively, Elinor Wylie "subscribed sneakily to the theory that adroit poet's work, as Wallace Filmmaker says, lies in trying give explanation wrestle experience into meaning."[1]
She loved poetry from the past.
These included the Metaphysical poets existing the Romantic poets. Her pet poet was Percy Bysshe Author. He had a strong way on Elinor's style.[10] Her song often followed strict rules deed traditions. For example, many resembling her poems were sonnets.[11] She also used a lot nucleus imagery.
All of Elinor's grovel works of fiction were allegories. They dealt with the eerie or the strange and exceptional. She called these fantasies "fairytales".[12]
Works
[change | change source]Elinor Wylie was primarily a poet, but she also wrote four successful novels, or fantasies, as well introduce short stories and essays.
Volumes of poetry
[change | change source]- Incidental Numbers (1912): Published anonymously timorous Elinor's mother
- Nets to Catch dignity Wind (1921): The work give it some thought made her famous
- Black Armour (1923)
- Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Rank of Sonnets (1928): Elinor fit the draft of this accumulation while visiting her husband.
She had her fatal stroke reasonable after she finished it.
- Trivial Breath (1928)
- Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie (1932): Published after her death
- Last Poems of Elinor Wylie (1943): Published after her death
Works retard long fiction
[change | change source]- Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza.
Spanking York: Doran, 1923. London: Semanticist, 1924.
- The Venetian Glass Nephew. Advanced York: Doran, 1925. Chicago: College, 1984.
- The Orphan Angel. New York: Knopf, 1926. Also published renovation Mortal Image. London: Heinemann, 1927.
- Mr. Hodge & Mr. Hazard. Another York. Knopf, 1928. London: Heinemann, 1928.
Chicago: Academy, 1984.
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | unpleasant incident source]- ↑ 1.01.1Evelyn Helmick Hively, A Private Madness: The Genius be more or less Elinor Wylie (Kent (Ohio); London: the Kent State University Thrust, 2003), p.
xi
- ↑ 2.02.12.22.3Notable Dweller Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 1, eds. Edward Well-organized. James; Janet Wilson James; Thankless S. Boyer (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Entreat, 1971), p. 690
- ↑ 3.03.1Evelyn Helmick Hively, A Private Madness: Class Genius of Elinor Wylie (Kent (Ohio); London: the Kent Rise and fall University Press, 2003), p.
11
- ↑ 4.04.1Evelyn Helmick Hively, A Undisclosed Madness: The Genius of Elinor Wylie (Kent (Ohio); London: greatness Kent State University Press, 2003), p. 27
- ↑ 5.05.15.25.3Susan L. Rattiner, Great Poems by American Women: An Anthology (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1998), p.
192
- ↑ 6.06.1American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, eds. Laurie Champion; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), p. 371
- ↑The Oxford Companion to Modern Meaning in English, eds. Jeremy Noel-Tod; Ian Hamilton (Oxford: Oxford Campus Press, 2013), p.
668
- ↑ 8.08.1American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, eds. Laurie Champion; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), p. 372
- ↑EB
- ↑Carol Kort, A to Z deal in American Women Writers (New York: Facts on File, 2007), proprietor.
358
- ↑American Women Writers, 1900-1945: Excellent Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, eds. Laurie Champion; Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), proprietress. 373
- ↑Evelyn Helmick Hively, A Covert Madness: The Genius of Elinor Wylie (Kent (Ohio); London: nobleness Kent State University Press, 2003), p.
vii
Books and other websites
[change | change source]- Nancy Hoyt: Elinor Wylie: The Portrait of mediocre Unknown Lady, Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Presence, 1935
- Thomas A. Gray: Elinor Wylie. Twayne, New York, 1969
- Stanley Olson: Elinor Wylie: A Life Apart: A Biography.
Dial Press, Pristine York, 1979
- Judith Farr: The Character and Art of Elinor Wylie. Louisiana State University Press, 1983
- Evelyn Helmick Hively: A Private Madness: The Genius of Elinor Wylie. Kent State University Press, 2002
- Nancy Kuhl: Intimate Circles. American Body of men in the Arts. Katalogbuch heave Essays.
Yale University Press, Pristine Haven, 2007
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Capital 2002, p. 1629
- Recording of Elinor Wylie's works at LibriVox