Biography EssayDespite a publishing career that spanned three decades and a canon that ranges from lyrics to verse plays and political commentary, Edna St. Vincent Millay is probably best known for he...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American lyric poet whose personal life and verse burned meteorically through the imaginations of rebellious youth during the 1920s.Edna St. Vincent Millay w...
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Despite a publishing career that spanned three decades and a canon that ranges from lyrics to verse plays and political commentary, Edna St. Vincent Millay is probably best known for her early works, ...
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During a century when few poets were writing drama, and fewer playwrights were writing verse, Edna St. Vincent Millay excelled as a capable author of both. In 1923 Millay became the first woman to be ...
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In the following review, originally published in the Dial magazine on 14 Februrary, 1918, Untermeyer praises the collection Renascence and Other Poems as an extraordinary work in which the reader find...
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In the following excerpt, Van Doren defines Renascence as “one of the loveliest of American poems.”
The little renaissance of poetry which there have been a hundred historians to scen...
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In the following excerpt, Kreymborg praises Millay's exquisite craftsmanship, describing Renascence as a mystical work of prophetic power.
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Edna ...
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In the following essay, Atkins comments on Millay's mastery of poetic diction in Renascence, remarking that the poet never “repudiated her heritage of natural English speech.”
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In the following excerpt, Cargill defines Renascence as an inspired description of a spiritual struggle.
Fame, which even in America may not necessarily mean rich rewards, had come with Renascence,...
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In the following essay, Gurko discusses the biographical and psychological context of Millay's poem.
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and look...
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In the following excerpt, Brittin praises Renascence as an inspired poem which eloquently conveys “a sense of the immense mystery of the universe.”
Renascence, the most salient poem i...
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In the following essay, Clark relies on a variety of feminist and psychoanalytical ideas to define Renascence as a valiant, but ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to forge an authentic feminine poetic s...
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In the following excerpt, Walker interprets Renascence as emblematic of the poet's awareness of the power and fragility her own body.
Though born only six years after H. D. (1892 versus 1886...
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In the following excerpt, Benfey describes Renascence as a “claustrophobic” masterpiece.
Millay's childhood is a story of precocious virtuosity. She excelled at everything, and...
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In the following excerpt, Epstein describes the emotional and erotic context of Millay's poem.
In September of 1911 she had written, “There is no time, no distance in my love. It is t...
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