Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Author: Edna St. Vincent MillayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1981-07-10
ISBN: 0060908890
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: The Greatest Female Poet Of Twentieth-Century America
Summary: 5 Stars
"Time does not bring relief; you all have lied/ Who told me time would ease me of my pain!"
Old and wise beyond her years, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the majority of her most beautiful and famous works at a startlingly young age. One of few moments of comedy in Millay's otherwise (too) serious, brief life, was that as a published and award-winning poet while still in her teens, Millay entered college literature courses, taught by older teachers there to `instruct' her, even though they, themselves, had in most cases never published a line of verse or captured a single award!
"I burn my candle at both ends/ It will not last the night...."
This famous and oft quoted line about living the hectic life was Millay's, but many have forgotten that. A half-century after her passing, she is largely unremembered, lost among a crowd of later, lesser writers, ignored by subsequent ages that placed scant value on poetry. Hers was a life often lived invisibly behind her words. Though the events of her personal life, with her promiscuity and radical ideals, at times gained notoriety beyond even her professional achievements, Millay the poet is the force this book celebrates. Even the biographical section in this anthology is terse and respectful, which I found befitting. Edna St.Vincent Millay's poems, from the startlingly powerful Renascence, to her sonnets (the best composed in the English language in centuries) to her final experimental output at the time of World War Two, everything Millay achieved succeeds in taking the consciousness of an attentive reader into a higher realm, where the mind and soul are meditatively fused as at few other times in the human lifetime, and the voyage is one of utter transcendence.
Summary of Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Compiled by her sister after the poet's death and originally published in 1956, this is the definitive edition of Millay, right up through her last poem, Mine the Harvest.Poetry Books
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