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Biography
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York: Random House, 2001, 550 p.
An account of Millay's life and times.
Criticism
Fairley, Irene R. "Edna St. Vincent Millay's Gendered Language and Form: 'Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree'." Style 29, no. 1 (spring 1995): 58-75.
Assesses Millay's sonnet sequence as a reflective expression of a woman's emerging self-knowledge.
Frank, Elizabeth Perlmutter. "A Doll's Heart: The Girl in the Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Louise Bogan." In Critical Essays on Edna St. Vincent Millay, edited by William B. Thesing, pp. 179-99. New York: G. K. Hall, 1993.
Compares the two poet's presentation of female personae and their approaches to the past traditions of lyric poetry.
Fried, Debra. "Andromeda Unbound: Gender and Genre in Millay's Sonnets." Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal 32, no. 1 (spring 1986): 1-22.
Explores Millay's sonnets and contends that she utilized the form...
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