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Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950. Elizabeth Atkins Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Times 1936.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950

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  1. Edna St. Vincent Millay1892-1950

  2. Elizabeth Atkins Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Times 1936 "T.S. Eliot was leading a flock of followers straight on into the desert of nihilism, among the cacti and Joshua Trees of symbolism, marquetry, obscurantism, and caricature, whereas Millay was walking the Maine seacoast of her childhood, finding in her unshaken love of earth and ocean and the noble aspirations of past ages an impregnable defense against the disintegrating forces of her time. . . ."

  3. Atkins "They [post war poets] found James Joyce revealing thought in the act of taking shape, showing it as an amoeba-like writhing and splitting of unformed impressions, ugly and senseless."

  4. Atkins After thoroughly understanding their post war culture, poets "were convinced of two things. The first was that poetry today can have only one mood--that of cynical irony. The other was that its method must be deliberately incoherent, honestly reflecting the incoherence of life. And it should be, they felt, a hit-or-miss mingling of scraps of older literatures with comments on the twentieth-century world. . . ."

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