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161–62.Further Reading
Brann, Eva,Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Read-
ing the ‘‘Odyssey’’ and the ‘‘Iliad,’’Paul Dry Books, 2002.
An insightful teacher who shares the delights
she has discovered with first-time readers of
Homer, Brann thoroughly discusses all of Hom-
er’s important characters, including Odysseus
(Ulysses) and Penelope.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, eds.,The Norton
Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in
English, 2nd ed., Norton, 1996.
An expanded selection of Millay’s works in this
edition includes the playAria da Capoand ‘‘An
Ancient Gesture,’’ remedying the former neglect
of her work in anthologies. Millay is set within
the tradition of the most enduring women writ-
ers from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent,Letters of Edna St. Vincent
Millay, edited by Allan Ross Macdougall, Harper and
Brothers, 1952.
Macdougall was a friend of Millay’s and asserts
in the foreword that these collected letters show
her love for her family and friends, her concern
for her craft, and her own self-critical nature.
The landscapes Millay lived in, from Maine to
Paris to her farm at Steepletop, are presented as
described in her own vivid words.
Parrish, Michael E.,Anxious Decades: America in Pros-
perity and Depression, 1920–1941, Norton, 1992.
This is an engaging narrative of the times Millay
lived in, with stories of great prosperity in the
1920s followed by tales of the greatest depres-
sion in U.S. history in the 1930s, leading up to
the moment of disillusionment about American
military strength at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Wilson, Edmund,I Thought of Daisy, University of Iowa
Press, 2001.
Wilson’s novel, originally published in 1929, is
set in the 1920s and is full of portraits of real
people he knew in Greenwich Village, such as
John Dos Passos and his first love, Millay. The
preface and afterword are by Neale Reinitz.An Ancient Gesture