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    The Poetry of Weddings
    The Poetry of Weddings
    The Poetry of Weddings
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    The Poetry of Weddings

    By Edna St. Vincent Millay, Christopher Marlowe and Georgina Christina Rossetti

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    Whilst those of us old enough to remember the sixties might have thought weddings would become obsolete for all but the faithful, they still seem for most of us to be the benchmark, the gold standard of a relationship.

    The symbolism in the joining together of these two hands is a powerful and loving statement of fact and intent, of love, commitment and sacrifice between two people. Whether we take these vows in religious ceremonies, spiritual gatherings, or merely as one human being to another the words have meanings and values equal to our needs, our wants, and our desires.

    Our classic poets speak from many viewpoints, many perspectives, as they gather word, phrase and verse into near sacred lines to celebrate, share, and state their love, their spiritual and emotional commitment, to this union with the souls and pens of Shakespeare, Keats, Millay, Teasdale and many others.

    This occasion is made to glisten with emotion and to endure with that very mysterious emotion called love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateNov 1, 2023
    ISBN9781835470602
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters, and was encouraged by her mother to develop her talents for music and poetry. Her long poem "Renascence" won critical attention in an anthology contest in 1912 and secured for her a patron who enabled her to go to Vassar College. After graduating in 1917 she lived in Greenwich Village in New York for a few years, acting, writing satirical pieces for journals (usually under a pseudonym), and continuing to work at her poetry. She traveled in Europe throughout 1921-22 as a "foreign correspondent" for Vanity Fair. Her collection A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) gained her a reputation for hedonistic wit and cynicism, but her other collections (including the earlier Renascence and Other Poems [1917]) are without exception more seriously passionate or reflective. In 1923 she married Eugene Boissevain and -- after further travel -- embarked on a series of reading tours which helped to consolidate her nationwide renown. From 1925 onwards she lived at Steepletop, a farmstead in Austerlitz, New York, where her husband protected her from all responsibilities except her creative work. Often involved in feminist or political causes (including the Sacco-Vanzetti case of 1927), she turned to writing anti-fascist propaganda poetry in 1940 and further damaged a reputation already in decline. In her last years of her life she became more withdrawn and isolated, and her health, which had never been robust, became increasingly poor. She died in 1950.

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