Collected Works Of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Collected Works Of Edna St. Vincent Millay Reviews

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  Luna

  I think I've found a new poet. Let me just say, it took a lot to unseat Robert Frost as my number one. He'd been my favorite since I was twelve, but Edna St. Vincent Millay took that seat as soon as I read just one of her poems.
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  Stephanie Graves

  I love Millay, so very much, and I pick this book up again every couple of years. Her sonnets are incredible--she has such an amazing sense of musicality, and she conveys beautiful melancholy so well that I feel less alone in the world for it.
  
  My very favorite sonnet of hers is XLIII:
  
  What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
  I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
  Under my head till morning; but the rain
  Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
  Upon the glass and listen for reply,
  And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
  For unremembered lads that not again
  Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
  Thus in winter stands the lonely tree,
  Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
  Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
  I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
  I only know that summer sang in me
  A little while, that in me sings no more.
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  Valerie Valente

  I really love Millay's work. I found her when doing my degree and I simply can't understand why I had never heard of her before. The Textbook said she was sometimes dismissed as being too simplistic, but it was that very same, simple beauty that drew me in. My very favorite was 'Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau!', which simply means 'Fountain, I will not drink your water!'
  The poem itself is in English and is so arresting. I read it over and over, cherishing it line by line.
  Millay now has a forever place on my poetry shelf.
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  Jenny

  I keep buying poetry and trying to read it to the kids and they are not into it but I love it! Hooray for poetry!
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  Emilie Marshall

  This chick is so very rad. Apparently she peaked Back When and then it was super hip to like her, and then super not hop to like her, which is lame cause her poetry is just good whether or not it's trending.
  Reading her poetry gets in your marrow in the way that Shakespeare or Reddit does: suddenly you're thinking in her language, and speaking in it too. Nobody says "beseech" in real life.
  I'd say her best stuff is about love, of course, and the men coming and going from her life, and how fleeting yet sweet these little loves can be. She also has a very Strong Independent Woman vibe, like she-don't-need-no-man, which is a nice break from that old canon of Lovesick Damsel, pining for her lost lover. Here's an excellent excerpt that makes you go Yasss:
  
  "I know a man that's a braver man
  And twenty men as kind,
  And what are you, that you should be
  The one man in my mind?"
  
  Been there, right??
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  Danielle Trent

  Beautiful, sublime
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  Tim Werenko

  Czesław Miłosz has been my favorite poet for a long time, and whenever in the bookstore, I see the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay on the shelf right next to him, so, one day I grabbed this book and HOLY CRAP. Why didn't people tell me. What amazing work. So rich, I only read a little at a time, but it's great to have it by the bed all the time.
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  Lewis Cox

  Edna has a way with words but just not my "Cup of Tea ".
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  Gretchen

  One of my favorite poets
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  Jamie Ander

  I was intrigued by the poems as I haven't read much lyrical poetry. It was really well written.
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  Jennie

  The perfect melancholy poems for a rainy night.
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  Mii

  This book is a great read!