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Early works of Edna St. Vincent Millay selected poetry and three plays

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Main Author: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Other Authors: Hubbard, Stacy Carson
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Barnes & Noble, 2006.
Subjects:
American poetry.
Poetry.
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Item Description:"Barnes & Noble library of essential reading."
"Originally published between 1917 and 1921"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:xvii, 194 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-194).
ISBN:9780760780787 (pbk.)
0760780781 (pbk.)
Author Notes: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.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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