The Poetry of Edith Wharton: Pulitzer prize winning author Wharton, known for novels such as Age Of Innocence and Ethan Frome, was a woman of many talents, an expert poet aswell, we explore a wonderful selection here.
Written by Edith Wharton
Narrated by Kelly Burke, Tania Rodrigues and Janet Fullerlove
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Marriage to Edward Robbins Wharton, who was 12 years her senior in 1885 seemed to offer much and for some years they travelled extensively. After some years it was apparent that her husband suffered from acute depression and so the travelling ceased and they retired to ‘The Mount’, their estate designed by Edith. By 1908 his condition was said to be incurable and prior to divorcing Edward in 1913 she began an affair, in 1908, with Morton Fullerton, a Times journalist, who was her intellectual equal and allowed her writing talents to push forward and write the novels for which she is so well known.
Acknowledged as one of the great American writers Wharton was also a dazzling though largely unrecognised poet. Her talents allowed her to create poems that both capture and explore many situations of life and society.
Edith Wharton died of a stroke in 1937 at the Domaine Le Pavillon Colombe, her 18th-century house on Rue de Montmorency in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, in France.
1 - The Poetry of Edith Wharton - An Introduction
2 - Terminus by Edith Wharton
3 - Some Busy Hands by Edith Wharton
4 - A Failure by Edith Wharton
5 - A Hunting Song by Edith Wharton
6 - Happiness by Edith Wharton
7 - Mould and Vase by Edith Wharton
8 - Jade by Edith Wharton
9 - Aeropagus by Edith Wharton
10 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton
11 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton
12 - Patience by Edith Wharton
13 - The Comrade by Edith Wharton
14 - Mona Lisa by Edith Wharton
15 - Life by Edith Wharton
16 - The Bread of Angels by Edith Wharton
17 - Chartres by Edith Wharton
18 - Survival by Edith Wharton
19 - All Saints by Edith Wharton
20 - All Souls by Edith Wharton
21 - The Young Dead by Edith Wharton
22 - Belgium by Edith Wharton
23 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton
24 - Experience by Edith Wharton
25 - A Torchbearer by Edith Wharton
26 - A Grave by Edith Wharton
27 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton
28 - Grief by Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.
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