Her contract, signed in January, was for this and a further untitled work. She was to have an advance of $1,000 on delivering each manuscript, and a 15-percent royalty rising to 20 percent after 5,000...
Literary responses
Edna St Vincent Millay
Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
In summer 1934 ESVM
's former lover George Dillon
began translating Charles Baudelaire
. The work went well at first but a year later he was bogged down. Millay offered comment and an introduction; she...