Last Poems OF Elinor Wylie by Elinor Wylie. Alfred Knopf. $2.75
Except for the three “Subversive Sonnets,” nothing is here to add to what we already know of Elinor Wylie as a poet; only to what we possess. Some of these poems, as finished as much in former volumes, justify the hazards of literary executorship, excuse the covers that the fastidious Miss Wylie would not have chosen, a title-page that, even with antique models, is awkwardly designed, and the inclusion of so many photographs of her manuscript as to puzzle such readers as are not students, and embarrass others whose modesty extends beyond their own to all works contemporary. One is likewise dubious about the implication of many notes on work that is by no means obscure.
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