Selected poems
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Library of America,
c2003.
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| Series: | American poets project
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 231 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1931082359 (alk. paper) |
| Author Notes: | 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. (Bowker Author Biography) |
