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Paperback Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay Book

ISBN: 0060129484

ISBN13: 9780060129484

Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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"One of the greatest American poets of her time."--New York TimesCollected Poems features Edna St. Vincent Millay's incisive and impassioned poetry and sonnets, as well as the poet's last volume, Mine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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A must for poetry lovers

There is so much to praise here, where do I start? How can I possibly communicate what these poems mean to me? "Renascence" alone takes my breath away - "The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through." These words too, allow the divine to shine through. "Interim" is, perhaps, as beutiful a poem as I have ever read. The author brilliantly captures the essence of loss, that grief and confusion, the mind's inability to accept the notion of a life alone: "...part of your heart aches in my breast; part of my heart lies chilled in the damp earth with you. I have been torn in two, and suffer for the rest of me..." There are still so many other passages that leap off these pages. Her phrases are like literary gem stones: Sonnet XXVII: "I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year" - could it be said any more succinctly? This collection is a must for anyone who cares at all about poetry - American or otherwise.

My most treasured book

This book of collected poems is the most treasured book that I own. My copy is absolutely falling apart - I have to keep it in its own special box.

Brilliant and Evocative

Millay has been criticized for her lack of technical rigor, but that is the very essence of her accessibility to readers. Yes, she wrote poems that rhymed, sometimes to the point of sing-song meter, but her words carried weight. They meant (and still mean) something, not like the esoteric, pseudo-intellectual hodge-podge that passes for modern poetry. It seems that today's poets wear their inaccessibility as a badge of honor - that only a select group of academic word-smiths can even understand what they have written seems to represent success for them. Not so with Edna. She touches your heart, sometimes even breaks it, with common words, feelings, emotions. You don't have to work for her meaning, it is plainly presented for all to read. But beware! Her poems may be easy to understand, but they are impossible to forget.

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Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay in 2Cool 2Be 4Gotten
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Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • February 21, 2020

Here at ThriftBooks, we love ourselves some good poetry, and we couldn't help but notice that this week marked the birthdays of four of our favorite versifiers. Not only do these wonderful writers create beautiful bits of literary art, they have lived some pretty interesting lives too!

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