Elinor Wylie

Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) was an American poet and novelist, born Elinor Hoyt in Somerville, New Jersey, and raised in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. Her first book of verse, Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), made her reputation, and was followed by Black Armour (1923), Trivial Breath (1928) and Angels and Earthly Creatures (1929).

Her poems are known for their polished, exact diction, crystalline imagery and tightly wrought forms, often turning on silver, glass, snow and metal. She also wrote novels, among them Jennifer Lorn (1923) and The Venetian Glass Nephew (1925). She died in New York in 1928.