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Elinor Wylie: Remembering a Poet of Beauty, Solitude & Escape

Every September 7 offers an opportunity to rediscover Elinor Wylie, an American poet and novelist whose brief life contained enough literary ambition, personal upheaval, beauty, controversy, and reinvention for several lifetimes. Born Elinor Morton Hoyt on September 7, 1885, Wylie became one of the most recognizable literary figures of the 1920s. Her carefully crafted poems …

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