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Early Poems
One of the most celebrated poets in America, Edna St. Vincent Millay earned a Pulitzer Prize by enchanting us with her beautiful sonnets and lyrics. This collection includes the complete selection of masterful poems from her first three books: Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, and Second April. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards I...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
December 18th 2008
by Dover Publications
(first published 1998)
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Not actually the first time I've read through this anthology, but I had the privilege of seeing the tiny row house in Greenwich Village where this brilliant lady wrote and stepped into the Cherry Lane Theater which I didn't know she founded but still exists, and it seemed time for a revisiting.
Vincent never disappoints.
This collection is particularly heavy on the poems about death, sadness, and feeling lovelorn, but that suits me just fine. It'd be nice to have a little more acknowledgment that...more
Vincent never disappoints.
This collection is particularly heavy on the poems about death, sadness, and feeling lovelorn, but that suits me just fine. It'd be nice to have a little more acknowledgment that...more
LOVED this. Often I can't summon the energy to devote myself to poetry, but these poems sprang out and demanded I pay attention. From the first poem on I was hooked. Her themes accomodate both with and melodrama while her language trips along with sweet ease.
I wasn't equally in love with each piece of course. The first book has a lot of melancholy stuff about death and longing, which was nice but not particularly interesting to me at this moment. Then the second book bored me a bit with all this...more
I wasn't equally in love with each piece of course. The first book has a lot of melancholy stuff about death and longing, which was nice but not particularly interesting to me at this moment. Then the second book bored me a bit with all this...more
Edna St. Vincent Millay had a sharp tongue and an even sharper mind. i love her play of language and wit.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (the first woman to receive the Pulitzer for poetry).
This famous portrait of Vincent (as she was called by friends) was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1933.
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This famous portrait of Vincent (as she was called by friends) was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1933.
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