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...freewheeling literary classicism which once made many college-bred Americans think that Millay had come to join them carrying spring breezes in her heels and the Pantheon in her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Make Bright the Arrows Millay lashes out at the warring world like a lady octopus caught in a whirlpool. Giving her native impetuosity and her Vassar graduate's well-educated illusions and disillusions free play, she writes her verses mostly in three ill-assorted styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Last month Edna St. Vincent Millay was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She plans to spend the coming winter-as if in an attempt to holystone an overstuffed literary position-verse-pamphleteering about current events. The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...least rational." Tony Galento: "Roosevelt will beat this Willkie just as bad as I'll beat Joe Louis the next time I catch up with the bum." William S. Knudsen (when asked whom he would vote for): "Go jump in the lake." Edna St. Vincent Millay (in an anti-Roosevelt "poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Words | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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