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"Vincent Millay was the voice of an era. Famous, infamous...her face, her voice, her poetry, and her plays were fervently embraced across the country. She could be witty, playful, poignant, pointed, sarcastic. She rose from a poor single-parent household to become one of the most renowned women of all time, yet she never quite escaped her financial slump, she never settled for one man (or woman), she never reconciled with her sister Kathleen. Her poetry continues to touch readers today--because she wrote poetry of every emotion, and she had cause to feel many."
Sarrah, Resident Scholar
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"While Nancy Milford's biography is rich in detail about this poet's short and complicated life, it is fraught with bad editing. Saying Millay is 5' 1" on one page, 5' 4" on another with no explanation. Saying Millay was
supporting six people and naming only two. It seems to me she was being careful to not offend the controllers of the Millay estate and at the same time please her publishers. "
Jenifer Kay Hood, Resident Scholar
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"Author Nancy Milford spent more than thirty years writing her biography on the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. The thirty years paid off, as this is the most definitive bio of Edna to date. Edna St. Vincent Millay was a passionate, wild, and extremely talented woman who became a heroine of the Jazz Age, and her poetry was both controversial and incredible. She was also the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The author, with the help of Millay's sister, also goes into detail on Edna's later life, when she became addicted to morphine, and her mysterious death. This is a story of a woman who was a celebrity in her time, carrying on affairs with both women and men, writing blatantly about sexuality, and a mysterious private life that was never revealed until now."
Amanda Goodwin, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- writer
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
Kind of living:
- general poverty story
Period of greatest activity?
- 1900+
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- long lived adults
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
Nationality
- American (!)
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Genius (really!)
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 (a fair amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- France
- Italy
- Greece
- Eastern Europe
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
- resort/hotel
Century:
- 1900-1920's
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Book makes you feel?
- thoughtful
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript. of nude males (the big P)
- vague references
- impregnation/reproduction
- descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
- lesbians!
- descript. of female anat. (the big V)
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- love/sex
- decency
- selfishness
- capitalism
- wicked men
- wicked women
- wicked rich people
- dying
Writer's slant towards subject:
- favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
How much dialogue in bio?
- little dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life?
Yes
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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