Wharton’s 1909 collection opens with a dramatic monologue in which the goddess Artemis speaks to the hunter who saw her and could not live. Other poems include ‘Life’, ‘Margaret of Cortona’, a sonnet sequence called ‘The Mortal Lease’, and meditations on experience and grief, written in the same years as The House of Mirth.
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