Selected works of Elinor Wylie / edited and with an introduction by Evelyn Helmick Hively.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wylie, Elinor, 1885-1928.

Contributor:

Hively, Evelyn Helmick.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2005

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 more that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. In addition, editor Hively chose short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to further define Wylie's rich and broad repertoire and her place on the 1920s literary scene.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

1 From Incidental Numbers

The Knight Fallen on Evil Days

Pegasus Lost

"Les Lauriers Sont Coupés"

2 From Nets to Catch the Wind

Beauty

The Eagle and the Mole

Madman's Song

August

The Crooked Stick

Atavism

Wild Peaches

Sanctuary

Village Mystery

Escape

"Fire and Sleet and Candlelight"

Sea Lullaby

A Proud Lady

Incantation

Silver Filigree

The Falcon

Bronze Trumpets and Sea Water-On Turning Latin into English

Spring Pastoral

Velvet Shoes

Valentine

3 From Black Armour

Full Moon

Nebuchadnezzar

Prophecy

Epitaph

Song

Heroics

Preference

Let No Charitable Hope

Self-portrait

Cold-blooded Creatures

King Honour's Eldest Son

Nonchalance

Demon Lovers

Castilian

Sequence

Benvenuto's Valentine

Twelfth Night

Now That Your Eyes Are Shut

Parting Gift

On a Singing Girl

To Claudia Homonœa

4 From Trivial Breath

Dedication

"Desolation Is a Delicate Thing"

Minotaur

Confession of Faith

True Vine

Speed the Parting

Hospes Comesque Corporis

Peter and John

A Strange Story

The Puritan's Ballad

The Devil in Seven Shires

"As I Went Down by Havre de Grace . . ."

False Prophet

A Red Carpet for Shelley

Address to My Soul

Last Supper

Lament for Glasgerion

Tragic Dialogue

5 From Angels and Earthly Creatures

One Person

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

XIII

XIV

XV

XVI

XVII

XVIII

Love Song

Chimæra Sleeping

Absent Thee from Felicity Awhile

Felo de Se

O Virtuous Light

Hymn to Earth

This Corruptible

Fair Annet's Song

Hughie at the Inn

Nonsense Rhyme

Bread Alone

Farewell, Sweet Dust

To a Lady's Countenance

Little Elegy.

6 From Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie: Hitherto Uncollected Poems

Green Hair

Pretty Words

A Courtesy

Golden Bough

Portrait in Black Paint, with a Very Sparing Use of Whitewash

Ejaculation

An American in England

Letter to V

The Pebble

Sonnet-You are the faintest freckles . . .

Sonnet-How many faults . . .

7 From Last Poems of Elinor Wylie

Beltane

From the Wall

Silver Bells and Cockle Shells

Written on the Flyleaf of John Webster's Plays

Little Joke

8 Poems Only in Periodicals

Seven Basketsful for Louis Untermeyer

Anti-feminist Song, for My Sister

9 From Jennifer Lorn: Book One

Gerald

A Gross of Brass Knockers

The Earl's Elzevir

10 From The Venetian Glass Nephew: Book One

Peter Innocent

Blue Balloon

Crystal Monsters

11 From The Orphan Angel

Book One: Western Wave

12 From Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard

Book One: Mr. Hazard

Funeral of a Mouse

'Tis True 'Tis Pity

13 Short Stories

Gideon's Revenge

The Life Story of Lydia Greensmith

14 Articles and Reviews

"Excess of Charity"

Path of the Chameleon

Jewelled Bindings

Symbols in Literature

Index of First Lines.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-11369-4

9786613113696

1-61277-431-8

OCLC:

815287927