Selected Poems
Published on 23. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-85635-959-0 (ISBN)
Description
This centenary edition celebrates Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950), one of the most popular poets of her generation and the best-known American poet of her time. Some of her achievements are, as her editor Colin Falck says, 'unlike anything that exists elsewhere in English-language poetry'. She is a brilliantly innovative verse technician, finding latent energies in traditional forms and discovering new means of her own to express what Falck calls 'her complex and extremely subtle feminist consciousness, her almost Blakean sense of the mysteriousness of ordinary life.'
'I know that Millay is a good poet,' writes Richard Wilbur, 'because there are so many of her lines in my memory.' 'She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century,' Richard Eberhart says. Millay's work is resistant to theory and cannot easily be adapted to modernism. Yet she has never forfeited the love of general readers and a new generation will find here the work of one of the most passionate and accomplished poets of the century.
'I know that Millay is a good poet,' writes Richard Wilbur, 'because there are so many of her lines in my memory.' 'She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century,' Richard Eberhart says. Millay's work is resistant to theory and cannot easily be adapted to modernism. Yet she has never forfeited the love of general readers and a new generation will find here the work of one of the most passionate and accomplished poets of the century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
275 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85635-959-0 (9780856359590)
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Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once remarked that America had only two great wonders to show the world: skyscrapers, and the poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay. She was a brilliantly innovative verse technician finding latent energies in traditional forms and discovering new means of her own to express what her editor Colin Falck calls 'her complex and extremely subtle feminist consciousness, her almost Blakean sense of the mysteriousness of ordinary life.' Millay's work is resistant to theory, yet she has never forfeited the love of general readers and a new generation will still discover one of the most accomplished and passionate poets of the last century. COLIN FALCK teaches modern literature at York College, Pennsylvania. His publications include two poetry collections, Backwards into the Smoke and In This Dark Light; an anthology of American and British poetry, Poems Since 1900 (edited with Ian Hamilton); Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems; and Myth, Truth and Literature, a critique of contemporary literary theory. He has also published poetry and criticism in many journals in the United States and in Britain.