Edith Wharton: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #18)
$39.50
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2005
Summary
From first to last, poetry was part of Edith Wharton’s writing life. While rarely (after early youth) her primary focus, it always served her as a medium for recording the most vivid impressions and emotions, an intimate journal of longings and regrets. “Poetry was important to Wharton,” writes editor Louis Auchincloss, “because it enabled her to express the deeply emotional side of her nature that she kept under such tight control, not only in her life but in the ordered sweep of her fiction…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931082863 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 121mm x 19mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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About The Author
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton(1862-1937) is a central figure in American literature, a masterful chronicler of her age and prolific writer in many modes. Her major works includeThe House of Mirth(1905),Ethan Frome(1911),The Custom of the Country(1913) andThe Age of Innocence(1920), for which she received the Pulitzer Prize, the first awarded to a woman.Louis Auchincloss, editor of this volume, was the author of more than fifty works of fiction, literary criticism, biography, and history, and like Wharton before him held the distinction of being his generation’s foremost chronicler of New York society. He edited two volumes of the writings of Theodore Roosevelt for The Library of America.
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