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Marguerite Wilkinson
1883–1928
A poet, critic, and anthologist with a strong feel for the outdoors, she moved easily between writing her own verse and championing modern poetry. Her work connected the early 20th-century literary world to everyday readers in newspapers, magazines, and lecture halls.
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The Passing of Mars: A Modern Morality Play
by Marguerite Wilkinson
About the author
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1883, she was raised in the United States after her family moved to Evanston, Illinois. She began writing poetry while attending Northwestern University, where she also worked on student publications.
She built a varied literary career as a poet, editor, reviewer, and lecturer. In addition to publishing her own poetry, she edited anthologies and wrote about contemporary verse, and archival summaries of her career note work for the Los Angeles Graphic, Books and Authors, The New York Times Book Review, and Poetry magazine.
Her writing was often noted for its love of the natural world. She died in New York City in 1928, but her poems and criticism still offer a vivid glimpse of American literary life in the early 1900s.