Edna St. Vincent Millay Selected Poems

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Book Overview

Praised by poets and critics ranging from A. E. Housman and Thomas Hardy to Edmund Wilson, Edna St. Vincent Millay's bold, exquisite poems take their place among the enduring verse of the twentieth century

Claiming a lyric tradition stretching back to Sappho and Catullus and making it very much her own, Millay won over her contemporaries--and readers ever since--with her passion, erotic candor, formal elegance, and often mischievous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931082359
• ISBN13: 9781931082358
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.7" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Collection

I was worried that this would be another disorganized grouping of poems put together randomly, but it wasn't!! The book is organized very nicely and it's not too thick. As for Edna's poetry itself, she was very talented. From the very first poem in the collection, I was hooked.