In the News: Two Portraits of Edna St. Vincent Millay as Poet and Free Spirit
She was like a flame, they said. She was like a rock star, the Madonna of her time. When Edna St. Vincent Millay read her poetry, crowds gathered to hear her thrilling voice and to see the tiny figure with the milky white skin and the bright red hair, dressed in her long, shimmering gown, and clad, Byronically, in a black velvet cloak. "My candle burns at both ends," Millay wrote. "It will not last the night;/ But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends —/ It gives a lovely light!"
Nexus: Official Internet homepage of ALBERTO S. FLORENTINO - a Filipino writer. The site features writings, research, the collections, anthologies, files, memoirs, and notes of the respected writer.
She was like a flame, they said. She was like a rock star, the Madonna of her time. When Edna St. Vincent Millay read her poetry, crowds gathered to hear her thrilling voice and to see the tiny figure with the milky white skin and the bright red hair, dressed in her long, shimmering gown, and clad, Byronically, in a black velvet cloak. "My candle burns at both ends," Millay wrote. "It will not last the night;/ But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends —/ It gives a lovely light!"
Nexus: Official Internet homepage of ALBERTO S. FLORENTINO - a Filipino writer. The site features writings, research, the collections, anthologies, files, memoirs, and notes of the respected writer.
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