Word: millay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solution No. i. In the U. S. this movement has produced, amid much Marxian sentimentality, such eloquent mutations as Archibald MacLeish's Panic, Public Speech, Fall of the City (TIME, April 19). Meanwhile Edna St. Vincent Millay, the best contralto of them all, has kept her verse dainty and her emotions uppermost in her mind. Last week for the first time...
...Poet Millay published a book with explicitly social subject matter...
Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
Typical of Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the latter says...
While Miss Millay's Liberal character despairs of reviving liberalism as a political force, she gives the lines which seem to ring most with her own conviction to the artist, John...