sentences:  Adam was a precocious poet; her first book, "The Elfin Pedlar", was published in 1923, when the poet was 14 years old.That book was in the Victorian genre of light verse about fairies and other pastoral subjects.Her early books were well known and widely reviewed; the composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford set selections from "The Elfin Pedlar" to orchestral music, and performed them widely.