Afternoon on a Hill - Love Letters to Nature
(2020)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Read Books Ltd., 2020
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1 online resource (50 pages)

ISBN/ISSN
9781528790581 MWT13568657, 1528790588 13568657
LANGUAGE
English
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"Afternoon on a Hill - Love Letters to Nature" is a beautiful collection of poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay all connected through the theme of nature and its beauty. Celebrated for their lyrical beauty, Millay's poems are infused with fiery romance and the youthful spirit that would become a characteristic of her writing. Contents include: "The Death of Autumn", "Exiled", "Inland", "Alms", "Low-Tide", "Assault", "Pastoral", "Weeds", "The Bean-Stalk", "Eel-Grass", "City Trees", "Spring", "Song of a Second April", "The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge", "Recuerdo", etc. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skillful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression

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