Renascence and Other Poems (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from gmillar

The only poem in here that I liked was "Afternoon on a Hill". I am, though, willing to admit that as my problem, not history's or literature's. I have no real taste for poetry and have had little training in it's appreciation. I therefore think that poets "do go on a lot". Perhaps that's why the ...

from gmillar

The only poem in here that I liked was "Afternoon on a Hill". I am, though, willing to admit that as my problem, not history's or literature's. I have no real taste for poetry and have had little training in it's appreciation. I therefore think that poets "do go on a lot". Perhaps that's why the ...

from thesmellofbooks

What an awesome range of poetics and understanding.

from A_musing

The title poem is simply awe-inspiring. Just a few simple pages in which Millay's sing-songy, non-challent rhythms and rhymes build into profound and overwhelming images.

from Marse

I don't know why I bought this book years ago. Maybe because I'd heard the name Edna St. Vincent Millay, and yet had never read or heard a single one of her poems. While skimming through "Books of the Century," this title caught my eye and I remembered that I had "Renascence and Other Poems" some...