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Died. Elinor Wylie, 42, famed poetess and novelist (Jennifer Lorn, the Venetian Glass Nephew, Orphan Angel), wife of Poet William Rose Benet, of Manhattan, from a paralytic stroke; in Manhattan. She leaves a son, Philip Hichborn, Harvard senior...
Poetry is dangerous metier for so gifted a juggler. In saner prose she has twice acquired merit: Jennifer Lorn is exquisitely humorous for its very artificiality; The Orphan Angel, good narrative for all the beauty of its imaginative flights...
...name is Morton McMichael Hoyt; his wife is Jeanne Bankhead, sister to Tallulah; his brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters are Nancy Hoyt, writer of sophisticated fiction (Roundabout, Unkind Star), and Elinor Wylie, poetess (Nets to Catch the Wind), novelist (Jennifer Lorn). No one could guess precisely why Morgan Hoyt should have wished to leave the bright ship and the people who were chatting on the deck...
...present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before...
...started only a few years ago; but the finely spun, exquisitely phrased verses, now collected in Nets to Catch the Wind and Black Armour were immediately recognized as authentic contributions to the lists of American poets. She then turned to prose and her delicately wrought, colorful, ironical Jennifer Lorn is a book which is almost too good to be true. In style and in form she imitated in it the mannered seventeenth century and her characters emerge through a screen of rare words and colors. In her new book, to be called perhaps A Venetian Glass Nephew, she dwells partly...