Edna St. Vincent Millay
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Passionately admired, Eda St. Vincent Millay's works are some of the most often memorized of modern poetry. Early Works of Edna St. Millay reprints the early poems and plays that created the famous figure of the "girl poet." Published between 1917 and 1921, and collected in this volume, are the three books of poems Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from the Thistles,...
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"She Never Will be All Mine - Poems of the Heart" is a collection of classic love poetry written by American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Celebrated for their lyrical beauty, Millay's poems are infused with fiery romance and the youthful spirit that would become a characteristic of her writing. The poems include: "When the Year Grows Old", "The Dream", "Witch-Wife", "Ashes of Life", "Three Songs of Shattering", "The Shroud", "Sonnet II", "Sonnet...
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First published in 1921, "Second April" is a fantastic collection of poetry written by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Contents include: "Spring", "City Trees", "The Blue-Flag in the Bog", "Journey", "Eel-Grass", "Elegy Before Death", "The Bean-Stalk", "Weeds", "Passer Mortuus Est", "Pastoral", "Assault", "Travel", "Low-Tide", "Song of a Second April", "Rosemary", "The Poet and His Book", "Alms", etc.
A profound collection that explores wild realities...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skillful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. Though most famous for her poetry, she was an accomplished playwright and wrote numerous successful plays and verse dramas....
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With the publication of Second April in 1921 and A Few Figs from Thistles in the following year, Edna St. Vincent Millay gave voice to the impassioned youth of her era. This excellent anthology comprises both works in their entirety, including such well-known and much-studied poems as "First Fig," "Recuerdo," and "The Philosopher."
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skillfull sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. "Kin to Sorrow - The Self Reflections of Edna St. Vincent Millay" contains 22 beautiful poems by Millay, with each connected...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skillful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. "The Lamp and the Bell" is a fairy tale drama in five acts written by Millay for a student production at Vassar College, New...
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This book contains a classic collection of poetry written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, including one of the best-known American poems "Renascence". Celebrated for their lyrical beauty which is most evident in her early works, Millay's poems are infused with fiery romance and the youthful spirit that would become a characteristic of her writing. Contents include: "Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Carl Van Doren", "Renascence", "Interim", "The Suicide", "God's...
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"The Little Ghost - And Other Poems on Grief and Healing" is a collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay all connected through the theme of death and dealing with loss. Celebrated for their lyrical beauty, Millay's poems are infused with fiery romance and the youthful spirit that would become a characteristic of her writing.
Contents include: "The Little Ghost", "The Shroud", "Sonnet III", "Sonnet V", "Sonnet V", "Sonnet VIII", "Sonnet II",...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the first woman and second person to win the award. In...
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Treasury of 23 works by American poet renowned for the lyric beauty of her early works. In addition to the title poem, this collection includes "Interim," "Sorrow," "Ashes of Life," "Three Songs of Shattering," "The Dream," "When the Year Grows Old," and others, including 6 sonnets. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
12) Early Poems
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One of the most successful poets in America and a fascinating literary figure of the early twentieth century, Edna St. Vincent Millay found her voice in a national poetry contest at the age of twenty. Her poems received critical praise and became the first step toward receiving the Pulitzer Award years later. An acclaimed poet of the Jazz Age, this liberated, often rebellious, woman enchanted us with her beautiful sonnets and lyrics, even as she surprised...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skilful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. First published in 1923, "The Poet and His Book" contains some of Millay's best poetry, including: "Renascence", "God's World",...
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"Afternoon on a Hill - Love Letters to Nature" is a beautiful collection of poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay all connected through the theme of nature and its beauty. Celebrated for their lyrical beauty, Millay's poems are infused with fiery romance and the youthful spirit that would become a characteristic of her writing.
Contents include: "The Death of Autumn", "Exiled", "Inland", "Alms", "Low-Tide", "Assault", "Pastoral", "Weeds", "The Bean-Stalk",...
16) A Few Figs from Thistles - The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay: With a Biography by Carl Van Doren
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skilful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. First published in 1920, "A Few Figs from Thistles - The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay" is a collection of Millay's most...
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"Aria Da Capo" is a 1920 play in one act by American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950). Divided into three parts, it is a expressionist morality play featuring the young shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, artist Pierrot, a young woman called Columbine, and stage manager and the Masque of Tragedy, Cothurnus. A thought-provoking play not to be missed by fans and collectors of Millay's seminal work. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was...
18) The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thist
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Edna St. Vincent Millay's childhood was a life of transient poverty. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town during their upbringing. The family would finally settle in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine. It was here that Edna would write some of her first lines of poetry. Edna would first...
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"The Wood's Edge: Legends and Fairy Tales of Edna St.
Vincent Millay" is a fantastic collection of poetry written by Edna St.
Vincent Millay. The poems are all related to mythology, folklore, or legend, and include the titular poem "The Wood's Edge". Celebrated for their lyrical beauty, Millay's poems are infused with fiery romance and the youthful spirit that would become a characteristic of her writing.
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In this new volume, Miss Millay shows herself an ardent lover of life and beauty. Here, in a matchless sonnet sequence, is enshrined the quintessence of her emotional and artistic power. She brings to the classic form new color and new splendor.
Here are sonnets from Millay's most popular period. Woman of Today labelled Millay as the "outstanding young poet" of her time.