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Paperback: 816 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Second Addition edition (March 8, 2011)
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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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
"Time does not bring relief; you all have lied/ Who told me time would ease me of my pain!"
Old and wise beyond her years, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the majority of her most beautiful and famous works at a startlingly young age. One of few moments of comedy in Millay's otherwise (too) serious, brief life, was that as a published and award-winning poet while still in her teens, Millay entered college literature courses, taught by older teachers there to `instruct' her, even though they, themselves, had in most cases never published a line of verse or captured a single award!
"I burn my candle at both ends/ It will not last the night...."
This famous and oft quoted line about living the hectic life was Millay's, but many have forgotten that. A half-century after her passing, she is largely unremembered, lost among a crowd of later, lesser writers, ignored by subsequent ages that placed scant value on poetry. Hers was a life often lived invisibly behind her words. Though the events of her personal life, with her promiscuity and radical ideals, at times gained notoriety beyond even her professional achievements, Millay the poet is the force this book celebrates. Even the biographical section in this anthology is terse and respectful, which I found befitting. Edna St.Vincent Millay's poems, from the startlingly powerful Renascence, to her sonnets (the best composed in the English language in centuries) to her final experimental output at the time of World War Two, everything Millay achieved succeeds in taking the consciousness of an attentive reader into a higher realm, where the mind and soul are meditatively fused as at few other times in the human lifetime, and the voyage is one of utter transcendence.
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The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay brings together poems from her best known books, including Renascence, Second April, A Few Figs from Thistles, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (her Pulitzer Prize winning collection) and others. The collection is a treasure trove of Millay's best work, and it can be read and reread with relish and always with new insights being gleaned.
The startling and passionate depth of Millay's vision is of the parallel between the individual and the natural and sometimes not-so natural environment, as well as to the universe and all its complexities. It is also connected to the Divine realm. However, they are not individually exclusive; they are intermixed, for the Divine can be violent and awe inspiring. Yet, the natural world can be that way, too. The individual with his or her fierceness of independence and willfulness is caught in the bewildering and tumultuous vortex of life, death and limbo. The issues that brought that person to that particular state may vary in degrees, from the loss of a loved one in the poem "Interim" to defiance of life and the Divine in "Suicide" to a whole lot of others. The lyrical flow of the poems makes them almost come off as flowery and light. However, there is a heavy undercurrent of uncertainty, rage, resentment and violence that shine through the "prettiness" and the fluidity of the language. It can catch readers off guard, because when you reread them and understand what lies beneath the surface, a whole new comprehension develops that there was something far more agonizing and serious that was the catalyst for why the poems were originally written.
There is a lyrical beauty in all the poems, but there is also a savage tumultuousness, even a bleakness, to some extent.Read more ›
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