Word: millay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assuming that such is the truth, such an index of mass psychology from the time of the publication of "Newes from Virginia" in the early days of James-town to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Renascence" guarantees only an historical study useful to research students. But the great value of a collection and of all these compact little volumes of the Oxford series is in furnishing a handy reference to subject matter which the general reader wants to pursue once more...
...select only those would make the volume more interesting. We miss Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, and Stephen Vincent Benet among the modern group and individual selections such as some of Emily Dickinson's "Life" beside the few cantos included here, Sidney Lanier's "The Marshes of Glynn", and Millay's "Wild Swans". To make room for these some of the emphasis could have been removed from Bryant and Longfellow and the volume would have been made considerably more useful...
...that whoever writes them was not developed up to the point of appreciating poetry. You published a review of Ogden Nash's last book with a picture of John Chamberlain and his wife, and the story of Mr. Chamberlain's literary rise. You even said that Edna Millay wasn't so good! Ho, hum. Does your reviewer like Mother Goose...
...your issue of Nov. 5, on p. 69, under the caption of Books, your reviewer describes the voice of Edna St. Vincent Millay as "clear but excitingly husky." With this description I beg to differ, having heard Miss Millay on her trip to Dallas several years ago and also several times over the radio....I recall the sweet clear soprano of her speaking voice distinctly. In her lines from The Buck in the Snow especially, her voice registered high treble. In fact, to me, it was "excitingly soprano...
Both Reader Hallam and TIME are right. When broadcasting, Poet Millay reads her poems, especially her children's verse, in a childlike treble. But just as often her voice varies with her mood to tragic huskiness. Sometimes her throat plays unfortunate tricks. Last fortnight in Detroit, where she gave a reading, Miss Millay was repeatedly interrupted by coughing in the audience. Each time she would pause, roundly upbraid the coughers. Toward the end of her reading Miss Millay herself was seized by a fit of coughing, to the undisguised glee of her audience...