A Private Madness: The Genius of Elinor WylieKent State University Press, 2003 - 264 oldal Elinor Wylie's body of work - four novels and four volumes of poetry produced between 1921 and 1928 - has often been overshadowed by her controversial personal life. In A Private Madness Evelyn Hively explores the points at which her life and her art intersect and demonstrates how Wylie used language and literary form to transform the chaos of her experiences. This purpose was successfully met, as A Private Madness presents Wylie and her work within the culture of the twenties. Described by contemporaries as an icon of the age, Wylie was illustrative of the tone and mores of the notorious decade in which her poems, novels, and Vanity Fair articles were written. Her friendships with such notables as Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and William Rose Benet and the events she endured - her father suffered breakdowns and a brother, a sister, and her first husband fell victim to suicide - colored her life and often mirrored the temper of the twenties. Her independence, unconventional behavior, narcissism, interest in the occult, the frantic pace of her life, and her problem with alcohol are evident in her novels and her poems. Her work embraces the escapism of the era in which |
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... Fantasy Literature . 4 vols . Englewood Cliffs , N.J .: Salem Press , 1983 . Mathews , T. S. " Performed by Starlight . ” New Republic 54 , Apr. 4 , 1928 , 226 . Matthiessen , F. O. The Oxford Book of American Verse Bibliography 251.
... Fantasy Literature . 4 vols . Englewood Cliffs , N.J .: Salem Press , 1983 . Mathews , T. S. " Performed by Starlight . ” New Republic 54 , Apr. 4 , 1928 , 226 . Matthiessen , F. O. The Oxford Book of American Verse Bibliography 251.
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... The Oxford Book of American Verse . New York : Oxford Univ . Press , 1950 . May , Rollo . The Cry for Myth . New York : Norton , 1991 . Freedom and Destiny . New York : Dell , 1981 . Meade , Marion . Dorothy Parker : What Fresh Hell Is ...
... The Oxford Book of American Verse . New York : Oxford Univ . Press , 1950 . May , Rollo . The Cry for Myth . New York : Norton , 1991 . Freedom and Destiny . New York : Dell , 1981 . Meade , Marion . Dorothy Parker : What Fresh Hell Is ...
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A power remote and exquisite | 3 |
Bitter springs of truth | 10 |
The egregious egoist | 18 |
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