Citizendia
Your Ad Here

Elinor Wylie
Elinor Wylie

Elinor Morton Wylie née Hoyt (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist who was popular before World War II. Events 1251 BC - A Solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes Greece. Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including

Contents

Family

Wylie was born in Somerville, New Jersey. Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Her grandfather, Henry M. Hoyt, was a governor of Pennsylvania; she was raised in this socially prominent family in Washington, D.C. Her aunt was Helen Hoyt, a minor poet. Henry Martyn Hoyt ( 8 June 1830 1 December 1892) was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1879 to 1883 as well as a general in the Union A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Helen Lyman commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman ( January 22, 1887 &ndash August 2, 1972)was an American [1] In 1912, she graduated from the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. Holton-Arms is a prestigious independent college-preparatory school for girls in grades 3–12 located in Bethesda Maryland. Bethesda is an Unincorporated area in southern Montgomery County Maryland, just Northwest of Washington D She eloped with Philip Hichborn, and later eloped with Horace Wylie. She married three times and had a son by her first husband. Her last marriage (in 1923)[2] was to William Rose Benét, who was part of her literary circle. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Rose Benét ( February 2, 1886 &mdash May 4, 1950) was an American poet writer and editor

Career

Talented in several arts, she was torn between painting and writing, but her position inside Washington literary circles, particularly with John Dos Passos and Edmund Wilson, encouraged her writing efforts. John Roderigo Dos Passos ( January 14, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1970) was an American Novelist and artist Edmund Wilson ( May 8, 1895 &ndash June 12 1972) was an American Writer and She wrote eight novels and several books of poetry. Her first book, Incidental Numbers (1912), was published privately in England. The first of her books to bring her recognition was her first official collection of poetry, Nets to Catch the Wind (1921).

Her other volumes of poetry include: Black Armour (1923), Trivial Breath (1928), Angels and Earthly Creatures(1929), and Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie (1932). Wylie's literary interests are largely conservative and formal, as demonstrated by her preoccupation with the sonnet. Heavily influenced by 16th and 17th century English poetics, Wylie also shares the Romantics' infatuation with nature and fantasy.

Her last novel, Orphan Angel (1926) explores what Percy Bysshe Shelley's life would have been like if he had escaped his early death and moved to America. Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4 1792 – July 8 1822 ˈpɝːsɪ ˈbɪʃ ˈʃɛlɪ was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among

Works

Novels

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Georgina (2001). H. D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers 1913-1946: Talking Women. Oxford University Press, 76. ISBN ISBN 0198187130.  
  2. ^ New International Encyclopedia

External links

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic