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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (Library of Classic Poets)
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The introduction to this collection of poetry says that Edna St. Vincent Millay has been criticized for not being sufficiently "modernist". He poems are too sentimental, too easy-to-read, and borrow too much from 18th century styles. Well the critics might be right but I love this poetry and plan to read more.Her most famous lines are here "My can... »
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Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Over the years, I have worn the binding to pieces touching, flipping, - and don't hate me - earmarking the pages of this book when I wanted to remember something and couldn't find a spare scrap of paper for a marker. There is something so exposed and fragile about her work and, at the same time, she is very strong and beautifully resolved to her observ... »
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library Classics)
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Her shorter pieces are much better than her longer ones. Many of the sonnets are quite good. She may be unlucky or unhappy in love, but she is wry about it and not the least bit maudlin or self-indulgent.
The poems about the unbearable beauties of nature strike me as overwrought and do not work at all.
Her shortest bits stin... »
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Collected Sonnets
I've seen some collections of the "best" poetry and among others, Edna St. Vincent Millay's work is not featured. Perhaps her work is regarded as too "lig... »
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Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sylvia Plath died in 1963, and even now her outsize persona threatens to bury her poetry--the numerous biographies and studies often drawing the reader to... »
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A Few Figs From Thistles
"My candle bums at both ends/It will not last the night/But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--/It gives a lovely light!"
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