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Article: Nancy Milford. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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New York. Random House. 2001 xviii + 555 pages + 32 plates. $29.95 ISBN 0-394-57589-X
NANCY MILFORD BRINGS US a thoroughly researched, exhaustive biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, who in her fifty-eight years (1892-1950) blazed into the first half of the twentieth century. The first woman poet to win the Pulitzer Prize, with high-volume sales, she thrilled audiences at sold-out readings coast to coast. She assumed equal sexual rights with men for multiple love affairs, but married for love in an "open marriage" that lasted for life. Her political opinions were loud and public: she write antiwar poetry before World War I, marched in the Sacco and Vanzetti ...