Word: edna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LETTERS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (384 pp.)-Edited by Allan Ross Macdougall-Harper...
...either made by me, before I permitted them to be published, or must be made, if made at all, someday by me. Only I who know what I mean to say, and how I want to say it, am competent to deal with such matters." The letter was signed: Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...Edna Millay had literally earned the right to lecture her publisher. By putting into her poetry the heart she perpetually wore on her sleeve, she had become that rarest of things in U.S. literature: a best-selling poet. To most young moderns of the '20s and '30s, poetry meant simply Edna St. Vincent Millay. To jazz agers and Bohemians she became a symbol for living recklessly, hand-to-mouth and bed-to-bed. Critics who then spoke of her in the same breath with Shakespeare might like to take back a lot of what they said. But even...
Forbidden Apples. Poet Millay, who died in 1950, liked to say she suffered from "Epistophobia," but her old friend, Allan Ross Macdougall, has found enough of her correspondence to make Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay a tender self-portrait...
...Camden (Me.) Millays were poor. Edna's father had left them, and her mother supported the three daughters by working as a practical nurse. But the love of literature flourished on empty stomachs. When Edna was 14, her poems began to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine; when she was 20, Renascence made her famous. She was an oldish 21 when a benefactor sent her to Vassar, a school she at first disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother...