J. D. McClatchy

J. D. McClatchy selected this sonnet to demonstrate Millay's fluency, colloquialism, technical brilliance, and also her intimacy, psychological acuity, and brutal and elegant immediacy.

William Marion Reedy , who read this collection in proof, thought it splendid work—all shot through with brightness; the air of the open world in it too. By this year, wrote Griffin Barry ...

J. D. McClatchy has written that this volume contains poems as fleetingly spirited as before.

Millay's editor J. D. McClatchy has judged this poem inferior to her best.

The premiere was a resounding success. Elinor Wylie wrote a laudatory review and Edmund Wilson judged it one of the year's only two culturally interesting events. The New Yorker called it America's most successful opera...

ESVM was a charismatic American poet of the earlier twentieth century, who through her lifestyle came to stand for the sexually and economically liberated woman of the 1920s. She wrote particularly sonnets, love lyrics, and...

ESVM 's Collected Poems were published in 1956, edited by her sister Norma . The most recent of several versions of her Selected Poems appeared in 2003, edited by J. D. McClatchy .