Edith Wharton and the "Visionary" Imagination

In summing up her own creative life, Edith Wharton reflected: No picture of myself would be more than a profile if it failed to give some account of the teeming visions which, ever since my small-childhood, and even at the busiest and most agitated periods of my outward life, have incessantly peopled my inner world.l Wharton always felt the force of this visionary world with a painful keenness, and it seems to have insinuated itself into her life very early. was enthralled by words. It mattered very little whether I understood them or not: the sound was the

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