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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Selected Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay( )
Author: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Series title:Library of Classic Poets Ser.
ISBN:978-0-517-22721-3
Publication Date:Mar 2006
Publisher:Random House Value Publishing
Imprint:Gramercy
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $7.99
Book Details
Pages:176
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.78 x 8.57 x 0.63 Inches
Book Weight:0.685 Pounds
Author Biography
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (Author)
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, dramatist, lyricist, lecturer, and playwright, was born on February 22, 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and educated at Barnard College and at Vassar College, where she earned her B. A. (Her poem "Renascence" won fourth place in a contest and was published in The Lyric Year in 1912; this resulted in a scholarship to Vassar.)

Millay's first volume of poetry, "Renascence and Other Poems," was published in 1917. In 1923, "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" won her a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Other works include: "A Few Figs from Thistles;" "Sonnets in American Poetry," "A Miscellany," "The Lamp and the Bell" and "There Are No Islands Any More." Millay also wrote the libretto for "The King's Henchman," one of the few American grand operas.

Edna St. Vincent Millay married Eugen Jan Boissevain in 1923. Shortly after, they purchased a farm in upstate New York, which they called Steepletop. Millay lived here for the rest of her life, composing some of her finest work in a little shack separate from the main house. Boissevain died in 1949. Millay died of a heart attack in her home on October 19, 1950.

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