Carolina QuotesOne thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers [Edna St. Vincent Millay’s]: if there were some poet — Frost, Stevens, Eliot — whom people still read in canoes!
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Fifty Years of American Poetry”, p. 329
- work
- The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
- year
- 1969
- locator
- p. 329
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