Little Elegy
Elinor Wylie, “Little Elegy” from Selected Works of Elinor Wylie, edited by Evelyn Helmick Hively. Used with the permission of The Kent State University Press, http://upress.kent.edu/books/Hively2.htm.
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Poet Elinor Wylie 1885–1928
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Subjects Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death
Occasions Funerals, Farewells & Good Luck
Biography
Extravagantly praised in her lifetime, the poet and novelist Elinor Wylie suffered a posthumous reversal in her reputation but has experienced something of a revival of interest among feminist critics since the 1980s.
Wylie was born in Somerville, New Jersey to a socially prominent family, and grew up in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C. As the daughter of a lawyer who later became solicitor general of the United . . .
Poems by Elinor Wylie
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Death
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
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