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...Vincent Millay." He has addressed "such widely separated institutions as Miss McGehee's in New Orleans and Miss Porter's in Farmington, Conn., to the number...
Tufts College (Medford, Mass.) honored itself and Lieutenant Leigh Wade, U. S. Army, with a master's degree in Science for his circummundane airplane flight last year; honored Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with a Litt.D...
...today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers. They crack metaphors as other people crack jokes"-and concluded: "The idea that the only literature is the literature of the past is wrong. This meeting, the Institute, might well be the beginning of a renaissance." Sprightly Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay was present. She contributed no theorizing, merely read from her poetical works and acted a play with three characters, by herself. Hatcher Hughes, a Columbia professor whose youthful mien belied his pedagogical calling, conquered a certain diffidence and told how he came to fashion the lives of Kentucky mountaineers into...
MANY MINDS-Carl Van Doren-Knopf ($2.50). In this new volume of critical essays, Mr. Van Doren again applies a skilful scalpel to his literary contemporaries. The very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay; Flame and Slag, for Carl Sandburg; Beyond Grammar, for Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that...
...HARP WEAVER AND OTHER POEMS-Edna St. Vincent Millay- Harper ($2.00). Lyrics, sonnets and one unforgettable ballad by one of the very first of our poets...