Poems
Early Twentieth-Century American Modernist Poetry of Love, Desire, Mortality, and Female IndependenceBy Edna St. Vincent Millay
Length1h 47m
About this audiobook
Edna St. Vincent Millay's *Poems* presents a powerful range of lyric, dramatic, and formal verse in which love, desire, solitude, nature, political conscience, and mortality are rendered with unusual musical precision. Millay moves deftly between the discipline of the sonnet and the freedoms of modernist experimentation, combining inherited poetic forms with colloquial directness, sharp irony, and intensely personal feeling. Her poems often stage conflicts between individual freedom and social convention, while their controlled rhythms and memorable images reveal an artist equally attentive to literary tradition and contemporary life. Situated within the cultural ferment of early twentieth-century American modernism, the collection also reflects the period's changing ideas about gender, sexuality, artistic independence, and the self. Millay (1892–1950) emerged as one of the most celebrated American poets of her generation. Raised in Maine and educated at Vassar, she participated in the Greenwich Village literary world and became associated with the Provincetown Players, experiences that shaped her interest in theatrical voice and unconventional identity. Her public success—including the Pulitzer Prize for *The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver*—coexisted with a lifelong commitment to formal craftsmanship and emotional candor. Her writing was informed by feminist and pacifist convictions, as well as by the tensions between artistic autonomy and public expectation. This volume is especially recommended to readers interested in American modernism, lyric poetry, and the evolving representation of women's experience. It offers both immediate emotional appeal and rich opportunities for scholarly study, inviting readers to hear how Millay transforms private passion into eloquent, culturally resonant art.
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GenrePoetry
Length1 hr 47 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated) (Annotated)
26VI Bluebeard
2SECTION ONE
27SECTION TWO
3Renascence
28I
4God’s World
29II
5Afternoon on a Hill
30Recuerdo
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6Journey
31Thursday
7Sorrow
32To the Not Impossible Him
8Tavern
33The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge
9Ashes of Life
34Humoresque
10The Little Ghost
35She is Overheard Singing
11Kin to Sorrow
36The Unexplorer
12I
37Grown-Up
13II
38The Penitent
14III
39Daphne
15The Shroud
40Portrait by a Neighbour
16The Dream
41The Merry Maid
17Indifference
42To S. M.
18Witch-Wife
43The Philosopher
19Blight
44I
20When the Year Grows Old
45II
21I
46III
22II
47IV
23III
48SECTION THREE
24IV
49Spring
25V
50City Trees
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