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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters, and was encouraged by her mother to develop her talents for music and poetry. Her long p...mehr sehenEdna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters, and was encouraged by her mother to develop her talents for music and poetry. Her long poem "Renascence" won critical attention in an anthology contest in 1912 and secured for her a patron who enabled her to go to Vassar College.
After graduating in 1917 she lived in Greenwich Village in New York for a few years, acting, writing satirical pieces for journals (usually under a pseudonym), and continuing to work at her poetry. She traveled in Europe throughout 1921-22 as a "foreign correspondent" for Vanity Fair. Her collection A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) gained her a reputation for hedonistic wit and cynicism, but her other collections (including the earlier Renascence and Other Poems [1917]) are without exception more seriously passionate or reflective.
In 1923 she married Eugene Boissevain and -- after further travel -- embarked on a series of reading tours which helped to consolidate her nationwide renown. From 1925 onwards she lived at Steepletop, a farmstead in Austerlitz, New York, where her husband protected her from all responsibilities except her creative work. Often involved in feminist or political causes (including the Sacco-Vanzetti case of 1927), she turned to writing anti-fascist propaganda poetry in 1940 and further damaged a reputation already in decline. In her last years of her life she became more withdrawn and isolated, and her health, which had never been robust, became increasingly poor.
She died in 1950.weniger sehen
Bücher von Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig and Other Poems A Few Figs from Thistles Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Poems: "Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive" Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenA Few Figs from Thistles: The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenThe Little Ghost - And Other Poems on Grief and Healing Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenEarly Poems Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenSecond April Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Aria Da Capo: A Play in One Act Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenAfternoon on a Hill - Love Letters to Nature Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 Bewertungen
Hörbücher von Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Few Figs from Thistles Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenRecuerdo Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenRenascence and Other Poems Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Second April Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 BewertungenVoices of Poetry, Volume 2 Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge Bewertung: 0 von 5 Sternen0 Bewertungen