J. D. McClatchy

Standard Name: McClatchy, J. D.

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Author summary Edna St Vincent Millay
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...
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
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.
Millay, Edna St Vincent. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy, The Library of America, p. xvii - xxxiii.
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Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
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.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.
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By this year, wrote Griffin Barry ...
Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
J. D. McClatchy has written that this volume contains poems as fleetingly spirited as before.
Millay, Edna St Vincent. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy, The Library of America, p. xvii - xxxiii.
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Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
Millay's editor J. D. McClatchy has judged this poem inferior to her best.
Millay, Edna St Vincent. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy, The Library of America, p. xvii - xxxiii.
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Literary responses Edna St Vincent Millay
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...
Publishing Edna St Vincent Millay
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 .
Millay, Edna St Vincent. Selected Poems. Editor McClatchy, J. D., The Library of America.
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Millay, Edna St Vincent. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by J. D. McClatchy, The Library of America, 2003, p. xvii - xxxiii.
Millay, Edna St Vincent. Selected Poems. Editor McClatchy, J. D., The Library of America, 2003.