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All for love.(Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems)(Book review)
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 225 pages, $20
reviewed by John Simon
Not so many years ago, the favorite poet of sophisticated high-schoolers and typical college students was Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). One had a mental image of a redheaded, fair-skinned imp of a girl from an obscure Maine background, having scandalous affairs at Vassar and in Greenwich Village--a poet garlanded by age twenty, a bohemian free spirit dedicated to living the artist's life, and, of course, a looker.
This image was true enough and helped the cause of Millay's poetry. The poetry returned the favor by ...
- Selected Poems.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Pettingell, Phoebe October 7, 1996 700+ words
...subjects by evoking ancient myths. From William Butler Yeats to Edna St. Vincent Millay to the Modernists, from the Georgians to...Grove (Knopf, 69 pp., $21.000 and C. H. Sisson's Selected Poems (New Directions, 94 pp., $9.95). Sheck's title...
- Selected Poems: Jean Garrigue.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Pettingell, Phoebe July 13, 1992 700+ words
Upon Hearing Edna St. Vincent Millary read in the 1930s, the young Jean Garrigue rushed...eclipse. That neglect should now be remedied by the publication of Selected Poems: Jean Garrigue (University of Illinois, 194 pp., $27.50...
- A tree putting forth green leaves.('Poems from the Women's Movement' and 'Love...
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Ostriker, Alicia September 1, 2009 700+ words
...hardcover Love Belongs to Those Who Do The Feeling: New and Selected Poems (1966-2006) By Judy Grahn Los Angeles, CA:Red Hen Press...department were Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore. The name of Edna St. Vincent Millay evoked smirks. Does any of this sound familiar...
- Selected Poems.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Book Whited, Stephen May 1, 2003 700+ words
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Library of America 231 pages **** This beautiful collection of Millay's verse is one of the first volumes...
- Last the night: the abiding genius of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Nehring, Cristina July 1, 2002 700+ words
...this essay: Savage Beauty: the Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford...Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein...will be quickly taken to task for it. Edna St. Vincent Millay's star has not so much...
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1995 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Edna St. Vincent Millay Admired poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wears the tragic face of an artist...Pulitzer Prize winners. headshots. Admired poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wears the tragic face of an artist...
- Biographies in paperback: `John Adams,' `Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St....
- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) September 16, 2002 700+ words
...he lived. QUEEN OF BOHEMIA ``Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay,'' by Nancy Mitford (Random House, $14...What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay,'' by Daniel Mark Epstein (Owl Books...
- Edna St. Vincent Millay. (A new poem).(Poem)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Epstein, Daniel Mark February 1, 2003 700+ words
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Unquiet spirit, by what right Do I come...recent books are What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Henry Holt) and The Traveler's Calendar (Overlook...
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