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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

Auteur de Collected Poems

114+ oeuvres 5,910 utilisateurs 76 critiques 83 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Edna St. Vincent Millay

Collected Poems (1956) 1,087 exemplaires
Collected Sonnets (1959) 777 exemplaires
Selected Poems (1991) 503 exemplaires
Renascence and Other Poems (1917) 442 exemplaires
A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) 132 exemplaires
Fatal Interview (1931) 131 exemplaires
CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT (1937) 108 exemplaires
The King's Henchman (1926) 91 exemplaires
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) 90 exemplaires
Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952) 85 exemplaires
Wine from These Grapes (1934) 78 exemplaires
Second April (1921) 73 exemplaires
Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939) 67 exemplaires
Make Bright the Arrows (1940) 54 exemplaires
Mine the Harvest (1949) 53 exemplaires
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1920) 41 exemplaires
Aria da capo: A play in one act (1921) 39 exemplaires
The murder of Lidice (1942) 27 exemplaires
Take Up the Song: Poems (1986) 27 exemplaires
The Lamp and the Bell (1921) 21 exemplaires
Renascence (1917) 13 exemplaires
Ter ere van de goedertieren maan (1981) 10 exemplaires
Three plays (1926) 10 exemplaires
Lyrics and Sonnets 5 exemplaires
Afternoon on a Hill (2019) 3 exemplaires
Herkenningen : vertaalde gedichten (1981) — Auteur — 3 exemplaires
The King's Henchman: Lyric Drama in Three Acts (1926) — Librettist — 3 exemplaires
Poems 2 exemplaires
The harp-weaver (1924) 2 exemplaires
Sonnets From An Ungrafted Tree (1964) 1 exemplaire
Poems and Satires (2021) 1 exemplaire
El amor no lo es todo (2023) 1 exemplaire
Poemas, solilóquios e sonetos (2022) 1 exemplaire
The Pertinent 1 exemplaire
Collected Sonnets 1 exemplaire
Antología poética (2020) 1 exemplaire
Second Fig {poem} 1 exemplaire
Thursday {poem} 1 exemplaire
Interim {poem} 1 exemplaire
The Suicide {poem} 1 exemplaire
God's World {poem} 1 exemplaire
FEAR (1927) 1 exemplaire
Wild Swans {poem} 1 exemplaire
Inland {poem} 1 exemplaire
Recuerdo {poem} 1 exemplaire
The First Fig {poem} 1 exemplaire

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The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires
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Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Contributeur — 96 exemplaires
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Storytelling and Other Poems (1949) — Contributeur — 90 exemplaires
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires
American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Contributeur — 65 exemplaires
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Contributeur — 56 exemplaires
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Twelve Classic One-Act Plays (2010) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances

Nom légal
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Autres noms
Boyd, Nancy
Date de naissance
1892-02-22
Date de décès
1950-10-19
Lieu de sépulture
Steepletop Cemetery, Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, USA
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Rockland, Maine, USA
Lieu du décès
Austerlitz, New York, USA
Lieux de résidence
Rockland, Maine, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Parijs, Frankrijk
Camden, Maine, USA
Études
Vassar College (BA|1917)
Camden High School
Professions
dichter
auteur van korte verhalen
toneelspeelster
toneelauteur
librettist
Relations
Van Stockum, Hilda (nicht)
Millay, Norma (zus)
Organisations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1929)
Prix et distinctions
Frost Medal (1943)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923)
Courte biographie
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.

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Good for melancholy and nature and being melancholy in nature. I bookmarked:
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."
 
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mmparker | 2 autres critiques | Oct 24, 2023 |
Good beyond all hope.
 
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setnahkt | 7 autres critiques | Aug 20, 2023 |
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.
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HenrySt123 | 1 autre critique | Aug 5, 2023 |
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
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TimBazzett | 10 autres critiques | Jun 29, 2023 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
114
Aussi par
75
Membres
5,910
Popularité
#4,175
Évaluation
4.1
Critiques
76
ISBN
184
Langues
5
Favoris
83

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