Savage Beauty (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nancy Milford
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1892-1950
- Setting: Maine, New York, and France
- Principal Characters: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Cora Buzzell Millay, Norma Millay Ellis, Kathleen Kalloch Millay, Henry Tolman Millay, Ferdinand Earle, Caroline B. Dow, Elaine Ralli, Eugen Jan Boissevain, Floyd Dell, Edmund Wilson, John Peale Bishop, Arthur D. Ficke, Witter Bynner, George Dillon, Elinor Wylie
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, Poetry or poets, 1910’s, 1920’s, 1930’s, 1900’s
- Locales: France, New York, Maine
No star in the American literary firmament during the first half of the twentieth century shined as brightly and plummeted as precipitously as did Edna St. Vincent Millay. A female Byron, she was a passionate poet who aroused the passions of many others, male and female. Millay was as seductive in person as in print, and no one, not even Robert Frost, was as popular and provocative on the reading circuit. The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry (in 1923), Millay, voted one of the ten most famous women in America in 1938, was as famous for her flamboyant, unconventional life...
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