Portrait of Millicent Bell

Millicent Bell

Millicent Bell (1919–2015) was a literary critic and translator whose final book was Shakespeare’s Tragic Skepticism (Yale University Press, 2002). A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she also wrote volumes on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and John Marquand; her Marquand: An American Life (Little, Brown, 1979) was nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

AGNI has published the following translations:

Autumn Day

Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated from the German by Millicent Bell

Adam

Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke Translated from the German by Millicent Bell

The Eel

Poetry by Eugenio Montale Translated from the Italian by Millicent Bell

Meriggiare pallido e assorto

Poetry by Eugenio Montale Translated from the Italian by Millicent Bell

The Lemons

Poetry by Eugenio Montale Translated from the Italian by Millicent Bell

Dora Markus

Poetry by Eugenio Montale Translated from the Italian by Millicent Bell
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