Make Bright the Arrows: 1940 Notebook

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Leather. Stated first edition with Harper code "K-P" (October, 1940). Bound in publisher's black limp leather, gilt lettering on spine, gilt harp medallion on cover. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." This is the last collection of her work published before her untimely death in 1950. "When the Second World War broke out, the majority of poets followed the literary fashion of war poetry established by the First World War poets Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) in expressing anti-war attitudes. Unlike this trend was the attitude the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay adopted and expressed openly in her war poems. Hence, despite the revulsion other poets expressed against Nazism and Fascism and the despicability they showed against Hitler and Mussolini they yet wrote against the destruction war brings to life and civilization. Millay, on the other hand, concentrated on the destruction Hitler already brought to Europe and life, therefore instead of being antiwar she wrote propagandist poetry that called the United States government to give up isolationism and support the European allies against the fuehrer and his army hoping that stopping him will reset order again in Europe and the world." - Asmaa Najim Abed Nassir. . Spine and edges rubbed and mildly worn, text block tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. viii, 65, (1) pp .