Edna St Vincent Millay

Author : Nancy Milford
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375760814
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Beauty written by Nancy Milford and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she tormented herself. If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Milford calls her book "a family romance"—for the love between the three Millay sisters and their mother was so deep as to be dangerous. As a family, they were like real-life Little Women, with a touch of Mommie Dearest. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother—and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258149123
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300265514
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rapture and Melancholy written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews) “Endlessly intriguing and illuminating. The publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's diaries is a major literary event, providing astonishing insight into the great poet’s art and life.”—Chloe Honum, author of The Tulip-Flame The English author Thomas Hardy proclaimed that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper, and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. In these diaries the great American poet illuminates not only her literary genius, but her life as a devoted daughter, sister, wife, and public heroine; and finally as a solitary, tragic figure. This is the first publication of the diaries she kept from adolescence until middle age, between 1907 and 1949, focused on her most productive years. Who was the girl who wrote “Renascence,” that marvel of early twentieth-century poetry? What trauma or spiritual journey inspired the poem? And after such celebrity why did she vanish into near seclusion after 1940? These questions hover over the life and work, and trouble biographers and readers alike. Intimate, eloquent, these confessions and keen observations provide the key to understanding Millay’s journey from small-town obscurity to world fame, and the tragedy of her demise.

Author : Krystyna Goddu
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613731752
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Called Vincent written by Krystyna Goddu and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing Millay's life from her youth in Maine to the bohemian fervor of her early adulthood in Greenwich Village and Paris, this fancinating biography will captivate middle grade readers. Including photos, full-length poems, plentiful letter and diary excerpts, a time line, source notes, and bibliography, this is an indispensable resource for any young person interested in poetry, literature, or biographies of remarkable people in American history.

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213964
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. The twentieth-century American author was catapulted to fame after the publication of Renascence, her first major work and a poem written while she was still a teenager. Millays frank attitude toward sexualityalong with immortal lines such as "My candle burns at both ends"solidified her reputation as the quintessential liberated woman of the Jazz Age. In this authoritative volume, Timothy F. Jackson has compiled and annotated a new selection that represents the full range of her published work alongside previously unpublished manuscript excerpts, poems, prose, and correspondence. The poems, appearing as they were printed in their first editions, are complemented by Jacksons extensive, illuminating notes, which draw on archival sources and help situate her work in its historical and literary context. Two introductory essaysone by Jackson and the other by Millays literary executor, Holly Peppealso help critically frame the poets work.

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062015273
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, songs, and the libretto to an opera that premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House to rave reviews. Millay infused new life into traditional poetic forms, bringing new hope to a generation of youth disillusioned by the political and social upheaval of the First World War. She ventured fearlessly beyond familiar poetic subjects to tackle political injustice, social discrimination, and women's sexuality in her poems and prose. In the 1920s and '30s, Millay was considered a spokesperson for personal freedom in America, particularly for women, and we turn to her lines to illuminate the social history of the period and the Bohemian lifestyle she and her friends enjoyed. Yet Millay's poetry is still decisively modern in its message, and it continues to resonate with readers facing personal and moral issues that defy the test of time: romantic love, loss, betrayal, compassion for one another, social equality, patriotism, and the stewardship of the natural world. Collected Poems features Millay's incisive and impassioned lyric poetry and sonnets, many of which are considered among the finest in the language, as well as the poet's last volume, Mine the Harvest, compiled and published in 1956 by her sister Norma Millay.

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Few Figs from Thistles written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547345321
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anastasia Has the Answers written by Lois Lowry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1986-04-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up, as her thirteenth year involves conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowed uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.

Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together about 160 sonnets, selected by Miss Millay herself from her works from Renascence to Make Bright the Arrows. They are the finest expression, in this poetic form, of the genius and spirit of a great American poet. Included is the first sonnet Miss Millay ever wrote, hitherto unpublished and three other never published before.