Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. (Books in review: the enchantress).(Review)

The American Prospect | November 19, 2001| | Copyright

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay By Nancy Milford. Random House, 550 pages, $29.95

THE LYRIC GIFT IS HARD TO sustain. How can you keep all that tension on the emotional string without stiffening into routines of feeling or, as poet Edna St. Vincent Millay did, tightening, tightening till it all goes pop?

Two new biographies show Millay's lifelong efforts to whet her own intensity and capture ecstasy in poetic form. 

 
   Into the golden vessel of great song 
   Let us pour all our passion; ... 
   Longing alone is singer to the lute;  ...

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