In late 1928 ESVM
began a love-affair with a younger poet, George Dillon
. Her letters to him express passionate love yet also frequently mention her love for her husband
. This complication, and her...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edna St Vincent Millay
Dillon
, now editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, never published another poetry collection after the Baudelaire.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
This volume is composed mostly of personal love poems (some of them dating back to 1932), in a different strain from the contents of Wine from These Grapes, which Millay had intended as a...
Textual Production
Edna St Vincent Millay
Flowers of Evil by George Dillon
and ESVM
, their translation of Baudelaire
's Les Fleurs du Mal, was published by Harper
. Individual poems bore the initials of one or other or both translators.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
398
Textual Production
Edna St Vincent Millay
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Edna St Vincent Millay
The subject was the progress of an adulterous love affair between an older married woman and a younger man, that is, the poet's affair with George Dillon
.
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House, 2001.
339
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Texts
Baudelaire, Charles. Flowers of Evil. Translators Dillon, George and Edna St Vincent Millay, Harper, 1936.