Edith Franklin Wyatt (1873-1958), The Wind in the Corn, and other poems. New York: Appleton, 1917. Courtesy Internet Archive.
Edith Franklin Wyatt (September 14, 1873 - October 1958) was an American poet.[1]
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Wyatt was born in Tomah, Wisconsin the daughter of Marian (LaGrange) and Franklin Wyatt.[2]
She attended Bryn Mawr College, 1892-1894.[1]
Career[]
Wyatt taught at a private school for 5 years, then became an instructor at Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. She lived in Chicago for the rest of her life.[1]
Her debut collection, Three Stories of Contemporary Chicago (1900), came to the attention of William Dean Howells, who publicly praised her early writing.[2]
She wrote an article for McClure's magazine on the 1909 Cherry Mine fire, which put her in demand during the 1910s as a social commentator and Progressive activist, promoting the causes of working-class women, child laborers, victims of the Eastland pleasure-boat disaster, and suffragists.[2]
She was a founding member of the board of Poetry magazine,[2] and 1 of the 3 members of the magazine's earliest advisory committee.[1]
Writing[]
American Women Writers: "Wyatt believed heterogeneous Americans share primarily the experience of migration: 'Movement through a variety of country' is, she declares, the unifying theme of the poems in The Wind in the Corn (1917). 'To a River God' exemplifies her poetry's dynamic attention to geography, unity-in-diversity theme, and ritualistic, chanting rhythms, which occasionally disintegrate into sing-song. Most admired were Wyatt's urban poems: 'November in the City' and 'City Equinoctial' epitomize her unconventional portrayal of natural cycles in city as well as country scenes."[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Wind in the Corn, and other poems. New York: Appleton, 1917.
Novels[]
- True Love: A comedy for the affections. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903; Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
- The Invisible Gods: A novel. New York & London: Harper, 1923.
- The Satyr's Children: A fable. Chicago: Argus Books, 1939.
Short fiction[]
- Every One His Own Way. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Non-fiction[]
- Making Both Ends Meet: The income and outlay of New York working girls (with Sue Ainslie Clark). New York: Macmillan, 1911.
- "Stephen Crane," in The New Republic 4:45 (September 11, 1915), 148-150.
- Great Companions. New York & London: Appleton, 1917; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1966.
- A Peace-Lover's War Epic. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1917.
- The Answerer: Walt Whitman. New York: North American Review, 1919.
- Great Companions (literary essays). New York: Appleton, 1917; Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Edith Franklin Wyatt, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Aug. 18, 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Wyatt, Edith Franklin, American Women Writers: A critical reference guide from colonial times to the present, Gale, 2000. Encyclopedia.com, Web, Jan. 4,2019.
- ↑ Search results = au:Edith Wyatt, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 10, 2015.
External links[]
- Poem
- "April Weather"
- Edith Franklin Wyatt profile & poem ("Sympathy") at the Academy of American Poets
- Edith Wyatt in The New Poetry: An anthology: "On the Great Plateau," "Summer Hail," "To F.W.," "A City Afternoon"
- Edith Franklin Wyatt at the Poetry Foundation
- Wyatt in Poetry: A magazine of verse, 1912-1922: "Sympathy," "Clover," "April Weather," "Summer Hail," "To F.W.," "On the Great Plateau," "Sleep," "City Whistles"
- Prose
- Books
- Edith Wyatt at Amazon.com
- About
- Wyatt, Edith Franklin, American Women Writers
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