The Literature Network - Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856-1935

Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856-1935

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From: Legacy
Date: 19981031
Author:J, Robert

In an overview of contemporary American literature published in the New Republic on June 30, 1926, Edmund Wilson praised the poet Lizette Woodworth Reese, calling her "the dean of the guild" of contemporary women poets and observing that she "astonishes me by continuing to write, not only with the same distinction, but almost with the same freshness, as forty years ago." Other members of the "guild," whose work Wilson considered "on the average...more rewarding than [that] of the men," included Sara Teasdale, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinore Wylie, Amy Lowell, Louise Bogan, and Leone Adams ...

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