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CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper...
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...
...commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from New York University. Two LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University of Pennsylvania and Yale), New York's Special Racket Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey (Tufts and the University of Michigan), new President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association...