The Poetry of Edith Wharton

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 Introduction2 - Terminus by Edith Wharton3 - Some Busy Hands by Edith Wharton4 - A Failure by Edith Wharton5 - A Hunting Song by Edith Wharton6 - Happiness by Edith Wharton7 - Mould and Vase by Edith Wharton8 - Jade by Edith Wharton9 - Aeropagus by Edith Wharton10 - Non Dolet by Edith Wharton11 - Botticlelli’s Madonna in the Louvre by Edith Wharton12 - Patience by Edith Wharton13 - The Comrade by Edith Wharton14 - Mona Lisa by Edith Wharton15 - Life by Edith Wharton16 - The Bread of Angels by Edith Wharton17 - Chartres by Edith Wharton18 - Survival by Edith Wharton19 - All Saints by Edith Wharton20 - All Souls by Edith Wharton21 - The Young Dead by Edith Wharton22 - Belgium by Edith Wharton23 - Battle Sleep by Edith Wharton24 - Experience by Edith Wharton25 - A Torchbearer by Edith Wharton26 - A Grave by Edith Wharton27 - An Autumn Sunset by Edith Wharton28 - Grief by Edith Wharton