Author: Cheney, Anne,
Title: Millay in Greenwich Village.
Description: University, AL, Univ of Alabama Press, (1975). VG in G DJ. Edna St. Vincent Millay captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit & beauty of the pre-1920s as no other. poet did. She was a living symbol of the "new woman" who could live, think, and love as freely as she chose. This is a psychological portrait of Millay in her finest years, the ones after she had freed herself of the repression of her chldhood and youth and before she accepted the bonds of a stifling marriage. The four most important influences on her life were Floyd Dell, Edmund Wilson, Arthur Davison Ficke, and Eugen Boissevain. Cheney reveals Millay's concern with and involvement in anti-war protests, women's rights, social injustice, lesbianism, and individual freedom. DJ wear to edge with slight tanning and one small damp stain.

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