Word: millay
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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...
...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...
...Harriet Monroe of Chicago started Poetry magazine in 1912. By opening her pages to some of the best young fizzers, she got some "firsts" to be proud of: T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, Carl Sandburg's Chicago, early verse by Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...Communist Party. When he found that party membership would not get him a free trip to Moscow, he dropped out. And at Oxford, when he was 20, he published his first book, his only book of poetry. Babbling April owed both its mood and title to Edna St. Vincent Millay, and it was pretty frail stuff.* The really big thing that happened to Greene at Oxford was meeting Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a dark, pretty girl with a flawless complexion, and a Roman Catholic...