One 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)

One 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

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