Word: elinor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Hardy has said that the U. S. is notable only for skyscrapers and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poetess Elinor Wylie has likened her friend to the peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...
Among the previous selections have been such works as: "The Orphan Angel" by Elinor Wylie and John Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...Elinor Dorrance, Campbell soup heiress: "I last week arrived at Cherbourg on S. S. Berengaria, after abandoning my recent venture in work in my father's factories (TIME, Nov. 8). I announced that I had given up the work because my father disliked the publicity that attended...
...final choice of the prize-winners will be made by a Board consisting of three distinguished writers. They are Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature" Elinor Wylie, author of "The Orphan Angel," and William McFee, author of "Command" and "Casuals...
Bargain Poetry. One may now buy a pocketful of poets for less than the cost of a novel. Carl Sandburg, Elinor Wylie, Poe, Whitman, Nathalia Crane, H. D.? these are ready, more are coming, prepared in essence on strong paper as a Pamphlet Poet at 25c the pamphlet. Now one may have an anthology piecemeal, buy it on the installment plan and include only his own favorites. The pocketful of U. S. Pamphlet Poets is published by Simon & Schuster. F. A. Stokes has published a British pocketful, including Keats, Shelley, Laureate Bridges...