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Article: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay.(Review)
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN Henry Holt, 320 pages
THE ECLIPSE DURING THE PAST FEW DECADES of Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose poetry lit up the 1920s and '30s, is a mere vagary of fashion: Her work has candlepower enough to burn for centuries. Few poets combine reckless passion with exquisite exactitude of expression, and the ones who manage that combination of fire and ice endure. But it is not simply to revive a poet's reputation that two highly regarded biographers, Nancy Milford and Daniel Mark Epstein, have simultaneously published equally splendid studies of Millay, Milford's ...