Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #1)
$35.37
- Hardcover
231 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2003
Summary
Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth centuryClaiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her own, Millay won over her contemporaries-and readers ever since-with her passion, erotic candor, formal elegance, and often mischievous wit. J. D. McClatchy’s introduction and selections offer new an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082358 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931082359 |
| Author: | Edna St. Vincent Millay, J.D. McClatchy |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 231 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 119mm x 20mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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“McClatchy has done yeoman’s work with both selection and editing, and Library of America was right to inaugurate its American Poets Project with Edna St. Vincent Millay. Fashions in literature, like those in couture, keep coming back, as she, if she hasn’t already, surely will.” —John Simon, The New Criterion
About The Author
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and grew up in the seaside town of Camden.In 1923 Millay received the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Millay published five more collections of poetry; a prose collection under her pen name, Nancy Boyd; a translation; two verse dramas; and several plays. She died in 1950.J. D. McClatchy(1945-2018) was the author of many books of poetry and essays, includingPlundered Hearts- New and Selected Poems(2014), and the editor of nine Library of America publications. He wrote the libretto for Ned Rorem’s operatic version ofOur Town, taught at Yale University, and served as editor ofThe Yale Review.
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