Nets To Catch The Wind

by Elinor Wylie

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Genres: Poetry, Classics

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Elinor Morton Wylie, born Elinor Morton Hoyt, was an American poet and novelist.

She was the grandaughter of Henry M. Hoyt and a sister to Nancy Hoyt.

Reviews

[pennyg · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is small little collection of rhyming verse, more 18th century romantic than her own 20th. I love the way she weaves together mystical melodic verse using color and light in a language that feels good on the tongue and begs to be read aloud. Still my favorite, Velvet Shoes, The Fairy Goldsmith or Incantation,

A white rose
Black brambles hood;
Smooth bright snows
In a dark wood

A flung white glove
In a dark flight;
A white dove
On a wild black night...

[Illiterate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aestheticism laced with disappointment, fantasy with death, escape with irony. Top tips: Eagle and Mole, Proud Lady.

[Zvonimir · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just brilliant!!

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many a solid seasonal rhyme in this collection. "The Fairy Goldsmith" is charmingly descriptive, though perhaps my favorite is "The Tortoise in Eternity," an ode to one of the animal kingdom's most durable abodes that begins as follows:

Within my house of patterned horn
I sleep in such a bed
As men may keep before they're born
And after they are dead.

[Sikt Grote · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old Book of Poems

Liked being able to read this again. Elinor Wylie was a minor poet from the last century. Velvet Shoes probably the most famous of her poems.

[Ari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wild peaches
Sanctuary
A proud lady

[D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating: +3.5.
I wish publishers cared more for Wylie. She’s a great and unjustly forgotten poet.