When Elinor Wylie died in 1928 at the age of 43, she had built a considerable reputation as both a poet and novelist. Her poetry, deceptively simple, is couched in traditional rhyme schemes. Edmund Wilson described her as "the master of a divine language." This book contains many poems not published during her lifetime.

Elinor Morton Wylie née Hoyt (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist who was popular before World War II.