Edith Wharton: Selected Poems:

Wharton, Edith

ISBN 10: 1931082863 / ISBN 13: 9781931082860

Published by Library of America, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Edith Wharton: Selected Poems:
• Publisher: Library of America
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931082863
• ISBN 13: 9781931082860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

From first to last, poetry was part of Edith Wharton’s writing life. While rarely (after early youth) her primary focus, it always served her as a medium for recording the most vivid impressions and emotions, an intimate journal of longings and regrets. “Poetry was important to Wharton,” writes editor Louis Auchincloss, “because it enabled her to express the deeply emotional side of her nature that she kept under such tight control, not only in her life but in the ordered sweep of her fiction.”

In later years her poetry also engaged with the public passions of wartime, as she found herself involved with the plight of Allied soldiers in France. Her first models were Romantic, but in the course of her life she absorbed the influences of Symbolism and Modernism; and throughout her poetic career she showed a care for form even in her most private utterances, as in the erotic ode “Terminus,” never published in her lifetime. This volume collects the bulk of Wharton’s significant poetry, including much work previously uncollected or unpublished.

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About the Author

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) is a central figure in American literature, a masterful chronicler of her age and prolific writer in many modes. Her major works include The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), The Custom of the Country (1913) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize, the first awarded to a woman.

Louis Auchincloss, editor of this volume, was the author of more than fifty works of fiction, literary criticism, biography, and history, and like Wharton before him held the distinction of being his generation’s foremost chronicler of New York society. He edited two volumes of the writings of Theodore Roosevelt for The Library of America.