SOURCE: "Elinor Wylie's Poems," in The New York Post, January 28, 1922, p. 379.

In the following excerpt from a review of Nets to Catch the Wind, Millay describes Wylie as a poet of abundant talent and excellent taste.

The publication recently of Elinor Wylie's Nets to Catch the Wind is an event in the life of every poet and every lover of poetry. The book is an important one. It is important in itself, as containing some excellent and distinguished work; and it is important because it is the first book of its author, and thus marks the opening of yet another door by which beauty may enter to the world.

The material from which these poems is made is not the usual material. They are not about love, not about death, not about war, not about nature, not about God, not exclusively Elinor Wylie. They are not pourings forth...