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Those commentators unsympathetic to Millay’s efforts to write poetry of explicit political critique have treated "Justice Denied in Massachusetts" as somewhat of a notorious fall ... Edna St. Vincent ...
When Edna St Vincent Millay was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in ... She delights in forsythia in the early spring, snowstorms in winter. ‘Heard a phoebe this morning’; ‘The pasture fence is ...
Alexander Woollcott wrote in the New York Times: "You should see this bitterly ironic little fantasy by Edna St. Vincent Millay . . . this is the most beautiful and most interesting play in the ...
Now Milford returns with ”Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay” (Random House, $29.95), the biography of another woman passed over by literary history. If the name isn’t ...
Reading Nancy Milford's literary biography, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, made me really glad not to be a biographer. As Milford herself puts it in her prologue to the 509 ...