Savage beauty, the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford
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Savage beauty, the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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individual biography
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Savage beauty
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
45821174
Responsibility statement
Nancy Milford
Review
"If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as audacious in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. She embodied, in her reckless fancy, the spirit of the New Woman, and gave America its voice." "The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millay was dazzling in the performance of her self. Her voice was an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Young women styled themselves in her image - fairylike, taunting, free. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well." "Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an unimaginable treasure. Hundreds of letters flew back and forth between the three sisters and their mother - and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind the journals of Sylvia Plath."--Jacket
Sub title
the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Table Of Contents
The lyric years, 1892-1923 -- This double life -- The escape artist -- Greenwich Village: Bohemia -- "Paris is where the 20th century was" -- Steepletop: 1923-1950 -- Love and fame -- Love and death -- The girl poet -- The great tours -- Addiction -- The dying fall
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