Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #1) by Edna St. Vincent Millay (PDF)

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Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her own, Millay won over her contemporaries—and readers ever since—with her passion, erotic candor, formal elegance, and often mischievous wit. J. D. McClatchy’s introduction and selections offer new and surprising insights into Millay’s achievement. Included are her most beloved and justly admired poems, such as the wry bohemian anthem “Recuerdo” and the sonnet sequence “Fatal Interview”, the poetic record of a love affair that is presented in its entirety. McClatchy has also chosen works that extend our sense of Millay’s range: translations, her play Aria da Capo, and excerpts from her libretto The King’s Henchman. “I have for the most part been guided by my taste for Millay at her tautest and truest,” writes McClatchy. “There are precise and resonant images everywhere.” About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

User’s Reviews

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I have owned and loved this author and this specific book for years and wanted to give it to one of my writer friends. It has some of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s best works including Gods World and the Harp Weaver. My friend was overjoyed and now wants to read a biography of the Author and more of her timeless works.

⭐Time to put Vincent back on top as one of the five or ten major poets of the entire 20th Century. The lyrical power of her lines and stanzas is profound, the skill of her craft outstanding, the clarity of a truly idiosyncratic voice is unlike any other. Who else, besides Willie the Bard, wrote sonnets this good? Read Millay. She’s top flight.

⭐Great book all her great poems

⭐Unlike the previous reviewer, I find this to be a very satisfactory selection with good choices from all the published works of Millay and many oddities which I had not been aware of before purchasing this book. Examples being her play Aria da Capo and great translations of Baudelaire. As an early modern poet, Millay’s unique qualtities are too often overlooked.

⭐a poor selection of Millay’s poems, many of the same sort of lover’s complaint… if that’s what you want to read of hers, then its great… but if not, then not.

⭐nice selection of her work

⭐Llego antes de lo esperado y en perfectas condiciones. Es mas bonito de lo que creí. Acabado mate. No lo he leído pero estoy emocionada特に急いではいなかったのだが、稍々到着までの時間が掛り過ぎた。それ以外に付いて言えば、今後購入するための索引的意味で購入したので、不満は無い。

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