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ISBN-10: 1931082359
ISBN-13: 9781931082358
Publisher: Library of America
Publish Date: 01/27/2003
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 4.74" W, 0.74" H

Edna St. Vincent Millay Selected Poems

Editor: J D McClatchy

Hardcover

Price: $20.00

Overview

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 century

Claiming 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 and surprising insights into Millay’s achievement.

Included are her most beloved and justly admired poems, such as the wry bohemian anthem “Recuerdo” and the sonnet sequence “Fatal Interview”, the poetic record of a love affair that is presented in its entirety. McClatchy has also chosen works that extend our sense of Millay’s range: translations, her play Aria da Capo, and excerpts from her libretto The King’s Henchman.

“I have for the most part been guided by my taste for Millay at her tautest and truest,” writes McClatchy. “There are precise and resonant images everywhere.”

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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
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Details

ISBN-10: 1931082359
ISBN-13: 9781931082358
Publisher: Library of America
Publish Date: 01/27/2003
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 4.74" W, 0.74" H
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