SOURCE: "The Owl and the Nightingale," in The Dial, Vol. 74, June, 1923, pp. 624-26.

In the following review of Black Armour, Cowley praises Wylie 's ability to combine "intellect and emotion " and compares her poetry to that of T. S. Eliot.

Fantasy is the quality of an agile mind working freely, as if in a vacuum. It consists in the unexpected combination of ideas and images so as to create a world apart from the world, governed by a more arbitrary logic. The poems of Elinor Wylie, at any rate the best of them, have fantasy. They share the quality with T. S. Eliot, and reading Black Armour for the first time one is reminded of him forcibly.

But of which Eliot … the question is legitimate; he is never quite the same; he changes his style to keep pace with the continued development of his ideas. An author who...