
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 328 pages
- English
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
About this book
A noted biographer and poet illuminates the unique woman who wrote the greatest American love poetry of the twentieth century
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music and drama, and an inexorable desire to be loved. When she was twenty, her poetry would make her famous; at thirty she would be loved by readers the world over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was widely considered to be the most seductive woman of her age. Few men could resist her, and many women also fell under her spell. From the publication of her first poems until the scandal over
Fatal Interview twenty years later, gossip about the poet's liberated lifestyle prompted speculation about who might be the real subject of her verses.
Using letters, diaries and journals of the poet and her lovers that have only recently become available, Daniel Mark Epstein tells the astonishing story of the life, dedicated to art and love, that inspired the sublime lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- PART 1: Love o’ Dreams
- PART 2: The Whirlpool of Eros
- PART 3: Marriage
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Also by Daniel Mark Epstein
- About the Author
- Copyright