Edna St. Vincent Millay - It is high time we found out about this m

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, edited by Allan Ross Macdougall, Harper & Brothers, 1952.

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