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Elinor Wylie's Leavetaking
Torrence, Ridgiely | June 19, 1929 issue

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The article presents information the book "Angels and Earthly Creatures," by Elinor Wylie. Death and love are the themes of the volume of lyrics with which Elinor Wylie closed her remarkable and brief career. To admit that the first theme predominates implies no suggestion of the macabre. But the truth is that, as a courageous adventurer in the universe, she had grown to be on gracious terms with death, and these last verses of hers, possibly from chance but far more likely from her own sensitive precision, have actually an air of wooing death, almost of wreathing it with garlands. There is, almost explicitly, a valedictory tone.

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ANGELS & Earthly Creatures (Book); WYLIE, Elinor; LITERATURE; DEATH; LIFE; LOVE
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