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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

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114+ Werke 5,899 Mitglieder 76 Rezensionen Lieblingsautor von 83 Lesern

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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Edna St. Vincent Millay

Collected Poems (1956) 1,087 Exemplare
Collected Sonnets (1959) 777 Exemplare
Selected Poems (1991) 501 Exemplare
Renascence and Other Poems (1917) 442 Exemplare
A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) 132 Exemplare
Fatal Interview (1931) 131 Exemplare
Conversation at Midnight (1937) 108 Exemplare
The King's Henchman (1926) 90 Exemplare
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) 90 Exemplare
Wine from These Grapes (1934) 78 Exemplare
Second April (1921) 73 Exemplare
Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939) 67 Exemplare
Make Bright the Arrows (1940) 54 Exemplare
Mine the Harvest (1949) 53 Exemplare
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (1920) 41 Exemplare
Aria da capo: A play in one act (1921) 39 Exemplare
The murder of Lidice (1942) 27 Exemplare
Take Up the Song: Poems (1986) 27 Exemplare
The Lamp and the Bell (1921) 21 Exemplare
Renascence (1917) 13 Exemplare
Three plays (1926) 10 Exemplare
Lyrics and Sonnets 5 Exemplare
Afternoon on a Hill (2019) 3 Exemplare
Herkenningen : vertaalde gedichten (1981) — Autor — 3 Exemplare
The King's Henchman: Lyric Drama in Three Acts (1926) — Librettist — 3 Exemplare
Poems 2 Exemplare
The harp-weaver (1924) 2 Exemplare
Poems and Satires (2021) 1 Exemplar
El amor no lo es todo (2023) 1 Exemplar
The Pertinent 1 Exemplar
Collected Sonnets 1 Exemplar
Antología poética (2020) 1 Exemplar
Second Fig {poem} 1 Exemplar
Thursday {poem} 1 Exemplar
Interim {poem} 1 Exemplar
The Suicide {poem} 1 Exemplar
God's World {poem} 1 Exemplar
FEAR (1927) 1 Exemplar
Wild Swans {poem} 1 Exemplar
Inland {poem} 1 Exemplar
Recuerdo {poem} 1 Exemplar

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Best Remembered Poems (1992) — Mitwirkender — 157 Exemplare
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Mitwirkender — 137 Exemplare
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Mitwirkender — 134 Exemplare
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Mitwirkender — 128 Exemplare
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
American Sonnets: An Anthology (2007) — Mitwirkender — 65 Exemplare
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
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Rechtmäßiger Name
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Andere Namen
Boyd, Nancy
Geburtstag
1892-02-22
Todestag
1950-10-19
Begräbnisort
Steepletop Cemetery, Austerlitz, Columbia County, New York, USA
Geschlecht
female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
Rockland, Maine, USA
Sterbeort
Austerlitz, New York, USA
Wohnorte
Rockland, Maine, USA
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Parijs, Frankrijk
Camden, Maine, USA
Ausbildung
Vassar College (BA|1917)
Camden High School
Berufe
dichter
auteur van korte verhalen
toneelspeelster
toneelauteur
librettist
Beziehungen
Van Stockum, Hilda (nicht)
Millay, Norma (zus)
Organisationen
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1929)
Preise und Auszeichnungen
Frost Medal (1943)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923)
Kurzbiographie
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 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 24, 2023 |
Good beyond all hope.
 
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setnahkt | 7 weitere Rezensionen | 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 weitere Rezension | 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 weitere Rezensionen | Jun 29, 2023 |

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