Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
330, 332
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Dedications | Edna St Vincent Millay | The number of sonnets in the end was fifty-two. The book was dedicated to Elinor Wylie
. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. 330, 332 |
Fictionalization | Percy Bysshe Shelley | For generations PBS
appeared the quintessential image of the Romantic poet, whose work influenced such poets as Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, Alice Meynell
, Sarojini Naidu
—though for some of them he was... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Among the many literary figures personally known to STW
were Theodore Francis Powys
and his wife Violet
(the friends who introduced her to the poet Valentine Ackland
) and novelist Nancy Cunard
. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William, 1908 - 2000 Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, 1982, p. vii - xvii. xiii-xiv Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994, p. various pages. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Edna St Vincent Millay | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | First published in 1971 (Rich's collections often include writings issued previously), the essay When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision is described in 1988 by Elizabeth Meese
as still inform[ing] much of the best work... |
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... |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Thomas Hardy
(as reported by Elinor Wylie
) is believed to have said her poems were one of the only two great things in the United States, the other being the skyscraper. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001. xiii, 290 |
Literary responses | Mary Butts | The first edition of Ashe of Rings was not extensively reviewed. Although an unimpressed reviewer for the Liverpool Courier characterised it as another bad case of Futurism (like the writing of James Joyce
and Dorothy Richardson |
Reception | Dorothy Wellesley | W. B. Yeats
, then aged seventy, discovered DW
's writing in 1935 when he was ill in bed and was at work on The Oxford Book of Modern Verse. He was feeling disillusioned... |
Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
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