May 09, 2002

Savage Beauty, Milford

A biography of Edna St Vincent Millay. It's a personal history, and Vincent left plenty of scandalous or sad material, but I am grateful that Milford thinks the poetry is most important (inserts whole poems when discussing them-v. convenient!) I am left curious abt historical changes in poetry during Millay's career, either because of her or in despite. So wrote clew in History (20th c.).
And thus wrote others:
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