Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
Autor(a) de Collected Poems
About the Author
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, dramatist, lyricist, lecturer, and playwright, was born on February 22, 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and educated at Barnard College and at Vassar College, where she earned her B. A. (Her poem "Renascence" won fourth place in a mostrar mais contest and was published in The Lyric Year in 1912; this resulted in a scholarship to Vassar.) Millay's first volume of poetry, "Renascence and Other Poems," was published in 1917. In 1923, "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" won her a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Other works include: "A Few Figs from Thistles;" "Sonnets in American Poetry," "A Miscellany," "The Lamp and the Bell" and "There Are No Islands Any More." Millay also wrote the libretto for "The King's Henchman," one of the few American grand operas. Edna St. Vincent Millay married Eugen Jan Boissevain in 1923. Shortly after, they purchased a farm in upstate New York, which they called Steepletop. Millay lived here for the rest of her life, composing some of her finest work in a little shack separate from the main house. Boissevain died in 1949. Millay died of a heart attack in her home on October 19, 1950. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay: Renascence And Other Poems, a Few Figs from Thistles, Second April, And (2004) 17 exemplares
There Are No Islands, Any More: Lines Written in Passion and in Deep Concern for England, France and My Own Country (1940) 12 exemplares
Lyrics and Sonnets 5 exemplares
What lips my lips have kissed [poem] 4 exemplares
Second April and Other Poems 3 exemplares
COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 2 exemplares
Renascence [poem] 2 exemplares
L'amor no ho és tot: Antologia poètica (Poesia dels Quaderns Crema) (Catalan Edition) (2008) 2 exemplares
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems 2 exemplares
Renascence, & Other Poems 2 exemplares
Poems 2 exemplares
Edna St. Vincent Millay - Second April: "The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed" (2020) 1 exemplar
The Courage That My Mother Had 1 exemplar
Letters of Edna St Vincent Millay 1 exemplar
El amor no lo es todo 1 exemplar
Collected Lyrics of Edna ST Vincent Mill 1 exemplar
Christmas Short Works Collection 2015 1 exemplar
The Pertinent 1 exemplar
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge 1 exemplar
Renascence, Second April, and A Few Figs from Thistles: Early Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Kennebec Large Print… (2010) 1 exemplar
Conscientious Objector 1 exemplar
Harper's modern classics 1 exemplar
Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay 1 exemplar
Collected Sonnets 1 exemplar
I Shall Forget You Presently, My Love {poem} 1 exemplar
Second Fig {poem} 1 exemplar
Thursday {poem} 1 exemplar
To the Not Impossible Him {poem} 1 exemplar
MacDougal Street {poem} 1 exemplar
Interim {poem} 1 exemplar
The Suicide {poem} 1 exemplar
God's World {poem} 1 exemplar
The First Fig {poem} 1 exemplar
The True Encounter {poem} 1 exemplar
Wine From These Grapes. Includes October-an Etching; From a Train Window; Valentine; Aubade; Sappho Crosses Dark River… (1934) 1 exemplar
Wild Swans {poem} 1 exemplar
Poem and prayer for an invading army 1 exemplar
Passer Mortuus Est {poem} 1 exemplar
Inland {poem} 1 exemplar
The challenge to civilization : report of the ninth annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Recuerdo {poem} 1 exemplar
To Jesus, on His Birthday {poem} 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Flowers of Evil (1936) — Tradutor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições — 7,374 exemplares
The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost (2004) — Contribuidor — 1,014 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 902 exemplares
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contribuidor — 425 exemplares
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 147 exemplares
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contribuidor — 141 exemplares
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contribuidor — 129 exemplares
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind, and Soul (2017) 114 exemplares
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contribuidor — 55 exemplares
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Years of Protest: A Collection of American Writings of the 1930's (1967) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 4: The World Around Us (1968) — Contribuidor — 29 exemplares
Twenty Five Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre: Early Series (1949) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Six Great American Poets: Poems by Poe, Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow, Frost and Millay (Dover Thrift Editions) (1992) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
American poets, an anthology of contemporary verse — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Words Among America: Sixty Poems of Challenge and Hope — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Murder Mixture: An Anthology of Crime Stories — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Outros nomes
- Boyd, Nancy
- Data de nascimento
- 1892-02-22
- Data de falecimento
- 1950-10-19
- Localização do túmulo
- Steepletop Cemetery, Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Rockland, Maine, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Austerlitz, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Rockland, Maine, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Parijs, Frankrijk
Camden, Maine, USA - Educação
- Vassar College (BA|1917)
Camden High School - Ocupações
- dichter
auteur van korte verhalen
toneelspeelster
toneelauteur
librettist - Relações
- Van Stockum, Hilda (nicht)
Millay, Norma (zus) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1929)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Frost Medal (1943)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Edna St. Vincent Millay pulled herself out of a poverty-stricken childhood and became queen of the Bohemians during her years in New York's Greenwich Village. She expressed the recklessness of the Lost Generation of writers and artists following World War I with her famous poem "First Fig" ("my candle burns at both ends. . ."). She was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Membros
Críticas
I’m a fan of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry, so when I ran across a quotation of a few lines from this book, I decided to check it out. It’s an eighty-five-year-old stage play in verse, recounting the after-dinner talk of Ricardo, a wealthy sophisticate with a townhouse in Greenwich Village, and his six dinner guests. Since the far-ranging snippets touch on many political and social issues of the time, eight years into the Great Depression and on the eve of World War Two (with war already underway in China, Ethiopia, and Spain), I was prepared for much of the dialogue to be dated. This was less the case than I expected (sad to say).
Instead, the weakness lies in the characters. They are types, not persons: A stockbroker, a poor poet blindly defending Stalin, a frustrated fine artist who gets by on portrait commissions, a writer of short stories, a priest, and a young advertising copywriter. The exchanges, particularly heated between the broker and the poet, yield few surprises, and I didn’t notice any character development.
I was fascinated that Millay assembled an all-male group. This struck me even before the extended disquisition on the foibles of women that opened Part Two.
As for the writing: some of it, particularly the soliloquies written as sonnets, was fine. Millay displays a gift for aphorism. In addition to the lament that Babel is here and now that led me to read this, there is this on the economy: “I’m beginning to wonder what the hell / We buy that’s half so precious as what we sell.” Or this: “Hypocrisy is not to be despised, it is the pimp of Empire, but it presupposes / The existence in the community of a spiritual force for good, that must be courted and betrayed / Into connivance with evil before the planned step can be made.” As contemporary as the run-up to the Iraq War.… (mais)
Instead, the weakness lies in the characters. They are types, not persons: A stockbroker, a poor poet blindly defending Stalin, a frustrated fine artist who gets by on portrait commissions, a writer of short stories, a priest, and a young advertising copywriter. The exchanges, particularly heated between the broker and the poet, yield few surprises, and I didn’t notice any character development.
I was fascinated that Millay assembled an all-male group. This struck me even before the extended disquisition on the foibles of women that opened Part Two.
As for the writing: some of it, particularly the soliloquies written as sonnets, was fine. Millay displays a gift for aphorism. In addition to the lament that Babel is here and now that led me to read this, there is this on the economy: “I’m beginning to wonder what the hell / We buy that’s half so precious as what we sell.” Or this: “Hypocrisy is not to be despised, it is the pimp of Empire, but it presupposes / The existence in the community of a spiritual force for good, that must be courted and betrayed / Into connivance with evil before the planned step can be made.” As contemporary as the run-up to the Iraq War.… (mais)
RENASCENCE by Edna St. Vincent Millay, was, I know, considered a groundbreaking classic in its time, and a treasured book of my mom's, but sorry, Mom. I read the whole book in about forty minutes. I just couldn't relate to all the gloom and doom, and the stilted, archaic rhyming that, to me, was reminiscent of Poe. For me it was just barely an 'okay.' I have my mother's 1917 hardback (first?) edition of the book, published by Harper & Brothers. Content-wise I couldn't recommend it. But I wonder if it's valuable.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (mais)
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 114
- Also by
- 70
- Membros
- 5,820
- Popularidade
- #4,230
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 76
- ISBN
- 182
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 83
Renascence
Inland
Burial
Lament
Exiled
Ode to Silence
Sonnets ("We talk of taxes...")
"Yours is a face of which I can forget
The colour and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set."