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

Edith Newbold Jones was born in New York on 24th January 1862. Born into wealth, this background of privilege gave her a wealth of experience to eventually, after several false starts, produce many works based on it culminating in her 1921 Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘The Age of Innocence’

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Aug 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803544212

Edith Wharton

EDITH WHARTON (1862 - 1937) was a unique and prolific voice in the American literary canon. With her distinct sense of humor and knowledge of New York’s upper-class society, Wharton was best known for novels that detailed the lives of the elite including: The House of Mirth, The Custom of Country, and The Age of Innocence. She was the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and one of four women whose election to the Academy of Arts and Letters broke the barrier for the next generation of women writers.