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Article: The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. (Books in review: the enchantress).(Review)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- November 19, 2001
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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Edited and with an introduction by Nancy Milford. Modern Library, 167 pages, $16.95
THE LYRIC GIFT IS HARD TO sustain. How can you keep all that tension on the emotional string without stiffening into routines of feeling or, as poet Edna St. Vincent Millay did, tightening, tightening till it all goes pop?
Two new biographies show Millay's lifelong efforts to whet her own intensity and capture ecstasy in poetic form.
Into the golden vessel of great song
Let us pour all our passion; ...
Longing alone is singer to the lute;
Let still on nettles in the open sigh
The minstrel, that in ...