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Article: Thoroughly Modern Millay.(What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay)(Review)
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- November 5, 2001
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein (Holt, 299 pp., $26)
Readers of National Review are now becoming acquainted with the poetry of Daniel Mark Epstein; his very fine "Helen" appears in this issue (p. 62). Epstein is one of the strongest poets now writing in English. He is also a musician and a scholar; and, as his new book makes clear, an expert biographer.
The book invites us to reconsider Edna St. Vincent Millay both as a person and as a poet. He judges her to be a major poet, mostly a love poet, and I am willing to be persuaded that he is right. This is culturally interesting. The ...