Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
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Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, dramatist, lyricist, lecturer, and playwright, was born on February 22, 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and educated at Barnard College and at Vassar College, where she earned her B. A. (Her poem "Renascence" won fourth place in a näytä lisää contest and was published in The Lyric Year in 1912; this resulted in a scholarship to Vassar.) Millay's first volume of poetry, "Renascence and Other Poems," was published in 1917. In 1923, "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" won her a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Other works include: "A Few Figs from Thistles;" "Sonnets in American Poetry," "A Miscellany," "The Lamp and the Bell" and "There Are No Islands Any More." Millay also wrote the libretto for "The King's Henchman," one of the few American grand operas. Edna St. Vincent Millay married Eugen Jan Boissevain in 1923. Shortly after, they purchased a farm in upstate New York, which they called Steepletop. Millay lived here for the rest of her life, composing some of her finest work in a little shack separate from the main house. Boissevain died in 1949. Millay died of a heart attack in her home on October 19, 1950. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence And Other Poems, a Few Figs from Thistles, Second April, And (2004) 17 kappaletta
There Are No Islands, Any More: Lines Written in Passion and in Deep Concern for England, France and My Own Country (1940) 13 kappaletta
Lyrics and Sonnets 5 kappaletta
What lips my lips have kissed [poem] 4 kappaletta
Second April and Other Poems 3 kappaletta
COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 2 kappaletta
L'amor no ho és tot: Antologia poètica (Poesia dels Quaderns Crema) (Catalan Edition) (2008) 2 kappaletta
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems 2 kappaletta
Poems 2 kappaletta
The Courage That My Mother Had 1 kappale
Letters of Edna St Vincent Millay 1 kappale
Collected Lyrics of Edna ST Vincent Mill 1 kappale
THE KING'S HENCHMEN, A PLAY 1 kappale
Christmas Short Works Collection 2015 1 kappale
The Pertinent 1 kappale
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge 1 kappale
Renascence, Second April, and A Few Figs from Thistles: Early Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Kennebec Large Print… (2010) 1 kappale
Wonder Where the Horseshoe Went 1 kappale
Conscientious Objector 1 kappale
Harper's modern classics 1 kappale
Collected Sonnets 1 kappale
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Second April: "The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed" (2020) 1 kappale
Second Fig {poem} 1 kappale
Thursday {poem} 1 kappale
To the Not Impossible Him {poem} 1 kappale
MacDougal Street {poem} 1 kappale
Interim {poem} 1 kappale
The Suicide {poem} 1 kappale
God's World {poem} 1 kappale
The True Encounter {poem} 1 kappale
Wine From These Grapes. Includes October-an Etching; From a Train Window; Valentine; Aubade; Sappho Crosses Dark River… (1934) 1 kappale
Wild Swans {poem} 1 kappale
Poem and prayer for an invading army 1 kappale
Passer Mortuus Est {poem} 1 kappale
Inland {poem} 1 kappale
The challenge to civilization : report of the ninth annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems — Avustaja — 1 kappale
Recuerdo {poem} 1 kappale
The First Fig {poem} 1 kappale
To Jesus, on His Birthday {poem} 1 kappale
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- Virallinen nimi
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Muut nimet
- Boyd, Nancy
- Syntymäaika
- 1892-02-22
- Kuolinaika
- 1950-10-19
- Hautapaikka
- Steepletop Cemetery, Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, USA
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Rockland, Maine, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Austerlitz, New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Rockland, Maine, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Parijs, Frankrijk
Camden, Maine, USA - Koulutus
- Vassar College (BA|1917)
Camden High School - Ammatit
- dichter
auteur van korte verhalen
toneelspeelster
toneelauteur
librettist - Suhteet
- Van Stockum, Hilda (nicht)
Millay, Norma (zus) - Organisaatiot
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1929)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Frost Medal (1943)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Edna St. Vincent Millay pulled herself out of a poverty-stricken childhood and became queen of the Bohemians during her years in New York's Greenwich Village. She expressed the recklessness of the Lost Generation of writers and artists following World War I with her famous poem "First Fig" ("my candle burns at both ends. . ."). She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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I’m a fan of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry, so when I ran across a quotation of a few lines from this book, I decided to check it out. It’s an eighty-five-year-old stage play in verse, recounting the after-dinner talk of Ricardo, a wealthy sophisticate with a townhouse in Greenwich Village, and his six dinner guests. Since the far-ranging snippets touch on many political and social issues of the time, eight years into the Great Depression and on the eve of World War Two (with war already underway in China, Ethiopia, and Spain), I was prepared for much of the dialogue to be dated. This was less the case than I expected (sad to say).
Instead, the weakness lies in the characters. They are types, not persons: A stockbroker, a poor poet blindly defending Stalin, a frustrated fine artist who gets by on portrait commissions, a writer of short stories, a priest, and a young advertising copywriter. The exchanges, particularly heated between the broker and the poet, yield few surprises, and I didn’t notice any character development.
I was fascinated that Millay assembled an all-male group. This struck me even before the extended disquisition on the foibles of women that opened Part Two.
As for the writing: some of it, particularly the soliloquies written as sonnets, was fine. Millay displays a gift for aphorism. In addition to the lament that Babel is here and now that led me to read this, there is this on the economy: “I’m beginning to wonder what the hell / We buy that’s half so precious as what we sell.” Or this: “Hypocrisy is not to be despised, it is the pimp of Empire, but it presupposes / The existence in the community of a spiritual force for good, that must be courted and betrayed / Into connivance with evil before the planned step can be made.” As contemporary as the run-up to the Iraq War.… (lisätietoja)
Instead, the weakness lies in the characters. They are types, not persons: A stockbroker, a poor poet blindly defending Stalin, a frustrated fine artist who gets by on portrait commissions, a writer of short stories, a priest, and a young advertising copywriter. The exchanges, particularly heated between the broker and the poet, yield few surprises, and I didn’t notice any character development.
I was fascinated that Millay assembled an all-male group. This struck me even before the extended disquisition on the foibles of women that opened Part Two.
As for the writing: some of it, particularly the soliloquies written as sonnets, was fine. Millay displays a gift for aphorism. In addition to the lament that Babel is here and now that led me to read this, there is this on the economy: “I’m beginning to wonder what the hell / We buy that’s half so precious as what we sell.” Or this: “Hypocrisy is not to be despised, it is the pimp of Empire, but it presupposes / The existence in the community of a spiritual force for good, that must be courted and betrayed / Into connivance with evil before the planned step can be made.” As contemporary as the run-up to the Iraq War.… (lisätietoja)
RENASCENCE by Edna St. Vincent Millay, was, I know, considered a groundbreaking classic in its time, and a treasured book of my mom's, but sorry, Mom. I read the whole book in about forty minutes. I just couldn't relate to all the gloom and doom, and the stilted, archaic rhyming that, to me, was reminiscent of Poe. For me it was just barely an 'okay.' I have my mother's 1917 hardback (first?) edition of the book, published by Harper & Brothers. Content-wise I couldn't recommend it. But I wonder if it's valuable.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (lisätietoja)
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (lisätietoja)
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"Yours is a face of which I can forget
The colour and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set."