George Dillon

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...

Dillon , now editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, never published another poetry collection after the Baudelaire.

Her editor Eugene Saxton wrote that the staff at Harper were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems.Peter Monro Jack in the New York Times Book Review reminded readers that Milton

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...

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...

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.

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 .