RPO -- Selected Poetry of Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Selected Poetry of Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

Notes on Life and Works

Gray, Thomas A. Elinor Wylie. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969.
Contemporary Authors Online. Gale, 2003.

Primary Works

Wylie, Elinor. Angels and Earthly Creatures. New York and London: Knopf, 1929.
Wylie, Elinor. Angels and Earthly Creatures: A Sequence of Sonnets. Henley-on-Thames, England: Borough Press, 1928. (also known as One Person.)
Wylie, Elinor. Birthday Sonnet. New York: Random House, 1929.
Wylie, Elinor. Black Armour. New York: Doran, 1923.
Wylie, Elinor. Incidental Numbers. London, 1912. (Published anonymously.)
Wylie, Elinor. Nets to Catch the Wind. New York: Harcourt, 1921.
Wylie, Elinor. Trivial Breath. New York and London: Knopf, 1928.

Biographical information

Given name: Elinor (Morton Hoyt)
Family name: Wylie
Birth date: 7 September 1885
Death date: 16 December 1928
Nationality: American
Family relations
father: Henry Mortyn
mother: Anne (McMichael) Hoyt
husband: Philip Hichborn
husband: Horace Wylie
Education
Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn, Mayr, PA: 1893 to 1897
Mrs. Flint's School, Washington, DC: 1897 to 1901
Holton Arms School, Washington, DC: 1901 to 1904
Honour: Julia Ellsworth Ford Prize, Poetry Society: 1921
Literary period: Modern
Occupations
Editor
novelist
Poet
Residences
Burley, England: 1911 to 1915
Boston, Masachusetts: 1915 to 1916
Augusta, Georgia: 1918 to 1919
Illnesses
High blood pressure
Minor stroke
First RPO edition: 2004