دانلود کتاب خرسندی و مالیخولیا – خاطرات ادنا سنت وینسنت میلی

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on George Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1892. America was preparing for the World’s Fair in Chicago to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the New World. Her elaborate name, a perfect double-dactyl (Higgledy Piggledy) with an extra syllable added for gravity, may be seen as an advance payment on the child’s literary account: in its prime, the name would be printed and pronounced as frequently as that of Columbus, or even perhaps the Father of Our Country—if ceremonial usage be excepted. Her mother, Cora Buzzell Millay, a hair weaver, practical nurse, and published poet, may have had a premonition. No one knows where the homely “Edna” came from, but St. Vincent is the name of a Manhattan hospital where Cora’s brother had been rescued from death by starvation a week before his niece was born.