SOURCE: "Elinor Wylie's Poetry," in The New Republic, Vol. LXXII, No. 927, Sept. 7, 1932, p. 107.

In the following review of Collected Poems of Elinor Wylie, Tate acknowledges Wylie's technical skills but suggests that her poetry lacks distinguishing features that would establish her as a stylistically great poet.

This collection [the Collected Poems (1932)] of the verse of Elinor Wylie contains her four volumes exactly as they first appeared and, in addition, forty-seven poems that were not printed in her books. Of these, twenty appear in print for the first time. The book is handsomely bound and beautifully printed, and the editing has been done with great propriety by the poet's husband, Mr. William Rose Benét. Mr. Benét's task was difficult; one is grateful for the restraint and simplicity of his brief memoir, and for the lack on his part of any attempt at criticism.

Although Mrs. Wylie died four...