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Few modern poets have suffered more tumultuous critical fortunes than Edna St Vincent Millay. First praised, then condemned, for the "passionate" quality of her writing, Millay now plays a minor role in American literary history, even as her popularity among readers of poetry has remained strong. Over the past thirty years, several scholars have attempted to restore Millay's place in the canon by reframing her poetry not as the earnest expression of deep feeling, but as ironic mimicry designed to expose the artifice of poetic and social conventions, particularly surrounding gender. It may seem hard to reconcile these disparate views of Millay and what she tried to accomplish. What follows is an attempt to carve out a third possibility, one that accounts for her popularity while also honoring the complexities of her writing. Those who admired Millay during her lifetime praised her work for its passion. John Hyde Preston found in her first book, Renascence (1927), "the madness and fierceness of love, the horror and sudden hollowness of love, the love that kills while it satiates, that corrodes while it soothes, the love that drives men to ecstasy and despair." 1 There is just such a
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- Author
- Gargaillo, Florian
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 1523-9012)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)