2020
DOI: 10.25115/odisea.v0i21.3698
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From the Witch to the Fairy: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Exploration of Women in Poetry

Abstract: The first decades of the twentieth century in America witnessed the emergence of one of the most famous feminist writers of that time and whose fame disappeared as rapidly as it came: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1959). Her light and transgressive verse soon placed her as one of the poets that best represented the Roaring Twenties transgressing sexual and social taboos in an America dominated by the figure of the flapper that this writer perfectly embodied. This study delves into Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poe… Show more

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