Nets to Catch the Wind

This book is Nets to Catch the Wind, Stanzas and lines were quite short, and the effect of her images was of a highly detailed, polished surface. Often, her poems expressed a dissatisfaction with the realities of life on the part of a speaker who aspired to a more gratifying world of art and beauty. Louis Untermeyer wrote that the book impresses immediately because of its brilliance which, at first, seems to sparkle without burning It is the brilliance of moon-light corruscating on a plain of ice. But if Mis. Wylie seldom allows her verses to grow agitated, she never permits them to remain dull in 'August' the sense of heat is conveyed by tropic luxuriance and contrast; in 'The Eagle and the Mole' she lifts didacticism to a proud level never has snow-silence been more unerringly communicated than in 'Velvet Shoes.