Irene & Mirabell,
Thanks for the links! How did you know how much I
adore e.e. cummings, Irene? I was just browsing through a link to all his poetry last night, trying to decide which of his poems is my second favorite (1st choice has long been decided--"since feeling is first").
And, Mirabell, I'll have to check out some your favorite German poets. I already know and love Rilke.
On an Elinor-Wylie related note, I came across Amy Lowell's thoughts on Wylie's
Nets to Catch the Winds. In a letter written to Elinor on May 29, 1923, Lowell says:
"It is appealing....I repeat with very sincere words of my first reaction, 'My, that girl can write!'....Your work gives me more pleasure than almost any that is written to-day."
Vanity Fair had the following praise:
"Even when her (Wylie's) poems are not suffused with beauty, they are alive with intelligence; at worse, she can charm us with her distinguished manner and fascinate us with her literary dexterity."
Critics compared Wylie's work to that of Blake, Donne, Keats, Amy Lowell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Irene, you might find it interesting to note that Dorothy Parker was one of Wylie's "reluctant" friends. I don't think women were terribly eager to be close friends with Wylie, considering her penchant for taking married men away from their wives. What an incorrigible little minx!!
~Titania