“This morning, as she went about humming God moves in a mysterious way, Belinda wondered what to do first,” the English novelist Barbara Pym writes of a character. Her 1950 novel, “Some Tame Gazelle,” ...

Readers of The New York Sun will recognize Elinor Wylie (1885–1928), whose birthday we mark today, as one of a generation of American women poets writing in the shadows of the early twentieth century.