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FLOWERS OF EVIL-Charles Baudelaire; translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper...
...inspired degree. Since his death he has been manhandled by many a translator. Last week the latest attempt to transplant his hot-house Flowers of Evil was put on exhibition in the U. S. This time it was the work of two pairs of hands: Pulitzer Prize Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon. Both French and U. S. critics sent flowery congratulations, seemed to feel that at last Baudelaire had been well & truly turned into English...
...that in every instance they have used the original metre and form, invites comparison by printing Baudelaire's version on the opposite page. In some cases she thinks they have been able to give the literal equivalent. Some might think it queer that so ladylike a poet as Edna St. Vincent Millay should spend four months with such a tortured satanist as Charles Baudelaire. With a stamp of her foot she defies the lifted eyebrows: "It is impossible to make a good translation of a poet of whom one disapproves...
...Edna Ferber or Clifford Odets...
...Edna May Oliver is entitled to many of the remaining honors for her characterization of Miss Pross, the best of the pre-Wodehouse servants. No part could suit her better than that of this stiff, self-righteous, devoted maid-companion, to whom non-churchgoers are Atheists and the whole world is at the call of her ladybird. Blanche Yurka takes the part of Madame DeFarge, the fanatical wife of the wine shop keeper who heads the Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many...