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MISREADING MILLAY

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20010923
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With regard to Jane Vandenburgh's review of two books about Edna St. Vincent Millay and her poetry (Books, Sept. 16): I am writing as a longtime teacher, reader, and student of poetry in English and five other languages. I am not particularly fond of Millay's poetry, but I am interested in reading informative and enlightening book reviews, positive or negative.

There are two or three sentences in the second column which hint that Jane Vandenburgh might have something to say about two recent books on Millay, but she has not chosen to say it. Instead, she treats the reader to a series of ...

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