Edna St Vincent Millay And Her Times
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Edna St Vincent Millay And Her Times
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Author : Elizabeth Atkins
language : en
Publisher: New York, Russell
Release Date : 1964
Edna St Vincent Millay And Her Times written by Elizabeth Atkins and has been published by New York, Russell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.
A biography of the Pulitzer Prize winning poet who wrote during the first half of the twentieth century.
Poems And Satires
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Author : Edna St Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Poems And Satires written by Edna St Vincent Millay and has been published by Carcanet Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Poetry categories.
Edna St Vincent Millay (1892–1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America had only two great wonders to show the world: skyscrapers, and the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay. Poems and Satires restores that wonder to view, while also revealing Millay as a more innovative and versatile talent than she is usually given credit for being. It includes some of her wickedly funny satires (published under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd, out of print since 1924), as well as her acclaimed play Aria da Capo, and reveals her to be not only the defining 'flapper' poet of the 1920s but a crucial voice for the 2020s. The 'fierce and trivial' persona she cultivated in her early lyric poems and sonnets – with their dazzling wit and daring attitudes towards love and sexuality – captured the whirl of bohemian life in New York. In her genre-defying satires, she questioned society's treatment of women and artists in surreal stories and plays, non-fiction and spoof agony aunt letters, and even a Handmaid's Tale-esque dystopia disguised as an almanac from the future.
Savage Beauty
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Author : Nancy Milford
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001-11-27
Savage Beauty written by Nancy Milford and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Edna St Vincent Millay The Early Poetry Of Edna St Vincent Millay
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Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-03
Edna St Vincent Millay The Early Poetry Of Edna St Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with American poetry categories.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maryland on February 22nd 1892. Whilst still a child her parents had separated and finally divorced in 1904. Edna and her two sisters and mother Cora found times hard and apart from a trunk full of classic literature were living in poverty. However they were able to settle in a small house on her Mother's Aunt's property in Camden in Maine. It was here that Edna (who had a fondness to call herself Vincent) was to begin writing poetry. Despite her rebellious attitude she was published frequently in the school's literary magazine, The Megunticook. At 14 she won the St. Nicholas Gold Badge for poetry, and at 15 she had published in the popular children's magazine St. Nicholas, the Camden Herald, and the high-profile anthology Current Literature. While still at school Edna had several relationships with women as she came to terms with the woman and the artist she was becoming. Edna's fame began in 1912 when she entered her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year. The poem was considered the best submission but awarded fourth place, the resulting publicity being somewhat of a scandal. In the immediate aftermath of the controversy, Caroline B. Dow heard Edna reciting her poetry and playing the piano and was so impressed she paid for her education at Vassar College. Edna moved to Greenwich Village in New York after her graduation in 1917. Living in Greenwich Village Edna described her life in New York as "very, very poor and very, very merry." Openly bisexual, marriage was proposed by various suitors but rejected. Her 1920 collection A Few Figs From Thistles was controversial for its exploration of female sexuality and feminism. In 1919 she wrote the anti-war play Aria da Capo which starred her sister Norma Millay. At the age of only 31 Edna won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the third woman to win the poetry prize. In 1923 she married Eugen Jan Boissevain. A self-proclaimed feminist, Boissevain supported her career and took primary care of domestic responsibilities. Both Edna and Boissevain had many other lovers during their twenty-six-year marriage. In 1925, Boissevain and Edna bought Steepletop near Austerlitz, New York, which had been a 635-acre blueberry farm. The couple soon added a barn (from a Sears Roebuck kit), a writing cabin and a tennis court. The couple later bought Ragged Island in Casco Bay, Maine, as a summer retreat. Edna's reputation was damaged by the poetry she wrote about the Allied war effort during World War II. Merle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than Ezra Pound did for championing fascism." In 1943 Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. Boissevain died in 1949 of lung cancer, and Edna lived alone for the last year of her life. Edna died at her home on October 19, 1950. She had fallen down stairs and was found some eight hours after her death. Her physician reported that she had had a heart attack following a coronary occlusion. She was 58 years old.
Letters Of Edna St Vincent Millay
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Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Letters Of Edna St Vincent Millay written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Poets, American categories.
Rapture And Melancholy
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Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Rapture And Melancholy written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
Renascence And Other Poems
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Author : Edna St. Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher: Down East Books
Release Date : 2024-05-01
Renascence And Other Poems written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and has been published by Down East Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-01 with Poetry categories.
Often considered her best work, and one of the best-known American poems, the long poem "Renascence" is credited with introducing Edna St. Vincent Millay to a the broader world. Celebrated for their lyrical transcendence, Millay's poems convey fiery romance and an invigorating spirit that are hallmarks of her writing. Published as the inaugural title in Down East Books Maine Standards series, this volume brings the classic "Renascence" and two dozen other poems back to contemporary readers.
Anastasia Has The Answers
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Author : Lois Lowry
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 1986-04-28
Anastasia Has The Answers written by Lois Lowry and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-04-28 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
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.
The Selected Poetry Of Edna St Vincent Millay Renascence And Other Poems A Few Figs From Thistles Second April And The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver
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Author : Edna St Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher: Digireads.com
Release Date : 2018-06
The Selected Poetry Of Edna St Vincent Millay Renascence And Other Poems A Few Figs From Thistles Second April And The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver written by Edna St Vincent Millay and has been published by Digireads.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06 with Poetry categories.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's childhood was a life of transient poverty. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town during their upbringing. The family would finally settle in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine. It was here that Edna would write some of her first lines of poetry. Edna would first gain notoriety when her 1912 poem "Renascence" garnered a fourth place prize in a poetry contest for "The Lyric Year". Edna would go on to win the highest prize for poetry, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, for her work "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver". Noted for its lyrical beauty and at times controversial depiction of female sexuality, the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay marks some of the best of the early 20th century. Contained in this volume, printed on a premium acid-free paper, are some of her most important works: "Renascence and Other Poems," "A Few Figs From Thistles," "Second April," and "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver."
Edna St Vincent Millay Renascence Other Poems
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Author : Edna St Vincent Millay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-18
Edna St Vincent Millay Renascence Other Poems written by Edna St Vincent Millay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-18 with categories.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22nd February 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters. Her early years were tinted with much difficulty; divorced parents, poverty and a constant change of location. Despite this once settled in Camden, Maine Edna developed her literary talents at a furious rate. By 15, she had published her poetry in the popular children's magazine St. Nicholas, the Camden Herald, and the high-profile anthology Current Literature. In 1912, at 20, she entered her poem 'Renascence' in The Lyric Year poetry contest. Despite being considered the best poem it was only given fourth place. The ensuing uproar brought publicity and the offer of funding for her education at Vassar College. Here she wrote, both verse and plays as well as embarking on a series of affairs with women as she explored the wider world and all it offered. Edna achieved significant fame when she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for 'The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver'. It was a magnificent triumph. She married Eugen Jan Boissevain but on her wedding day she fell ill and he drove her to Manhattan for emergency surgery. He nursed her back to health with remarkable devotion. They were together, in an open marriage, until his death in 1949. In the summer of 1936, Edna was riding in a station wagon when the door swung open and she was hurled into the pitch-darkness and rolled into a rocky gully. She survived but with severely damaged nerves in her spine and was to live the rest of her life in pain. In 1942 in an article for The New York Times Magazine, Edna mourned the callous destruction of the Czechoslovak town of Lidice by Nazi forces in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The article would serve as the basis of her 32-page poem, 'Murder of Lidice' in 1942. Edna St. Vincent Millay, after suffering a heart attack, fell down the stairs and died at her home on 19th October 1950. She was 58 years old.