Last the night: the abiding genius of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Harper's Magazine | July 1, 2002| | Copyright

Discussed in this essay:

Savage Beauty: the Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford. Random House, 2001. 550 pages. $29.95.

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein. Henry Holt and Company, 2001. 300 pages. $26.

She was nineteen when she began--quickly, systematically, sexually, and metaphorically--to seduce the world of American poetry. Her rhythms were catchy; her voice, bold. Thomas Hardy called her the best thing in the nation besides skyscrapers. She won a Pulitzer in ... 


        

            

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