The Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay: A poetry anthology from Pulitzer prize winning author and hugely impactful social figure and feminist during and after the roaring 20's, Edna St Vincent Millay
Written by Edna St Vincent Millay
Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Kelly Burke and Ghizela Rowe
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An early marriage following her graduation ended when, after being pursued by Horace Wylie, 17 years her senior and a married Washington lawyer with three children, she eloped to England with him. His wife would not divorce him and the subsequent scandal was widely publicised further fueled by the suicide in 1912 of her abandoned husband.
With Wylie's encouragement she published in 1912, ‘Incidental Number’, assembled from poems of the previous decade.
Despite a child from her first marriage Elinor subsequently endured miscarriages, a stillbirth and a premature child who lived for only one week. When Wylie’s deserted wife agreed to a divorce, the couple returned to the United States and married but they were already drawing apart.
In 1921, Elinor’s ‘Nets to Catch the Wind’, was published. It was an immediate success and a prize-winner. In New York’s literary circles she found her next husband who acted as her agent – the poer William Rose Benét, brother of the famed Stephen. They married in 1923 and that same year ‘Black Armor’, was published. The New York Times said "There is not a misplaced word or cadence in it." She also published her first of four novels, ‘Jennifer Lom’, to excellent reviews.
She worked for a time as the poetry editor of Vanity Fair, an editor of Literary Guild, and a contributing editor of The New Republic. Her third book of poetry, ‘Trivial Breath’ arrived in 1928 as did the failure of her marriage with Benét.
She moved again to England and fell in love with a friend’s husband, to whom she wrote, and later published a series of 19 sonnets; ‘Angels and Earthly Creatures’.
Elinor Wylie suffered high blood pressure all her adult life and this eventually led to her death at Benet’s New York apartment on 16th December, 1928 where she suffered a stroke. She was 43.
1 - The Poetry of Edna St Vincent Millay - An Introduction
2 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay
3 - Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay
4 - Renascence by Edna St Vincent Millay
5 - If Still Your Orchards Bear by Edna St Vincent Millay
6 - My Heart Being Hungry by Edna St Vincent Millay
7 - First Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay
8 - Feast by Edna St Vincent Millay
9 - Second Fig by Edna St Vincent Millay
10 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay
11 - Three Songs of Shattering by Edna St Vincent Millay
12 - Rosemary by Edna St Vincent Millay
13 - I Too Beneath Your Moon by Edna St Vincent Millay
14 - Sonnet XLIII - What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St Vincent Millay
15 - Sorrow by Edna St Vincent Millay
16 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay
17 - Travel by Edna St Vincent Millay
18 - Journey by Edna St Vincent Millay
19 - Mist in the Valley by Edna St Vincent Millay
20 - Tavern by Edna St Vinent Millay
21 - Exiled by Edna St Vincent Millay
22 - A Visit to the Asylum by Edna St Vincent Millay
23 - Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay
24 - The Philosopher by Edna St Vincent Millay
25 - Sonnet XXX - Love is Not All by Edna St Vincent Millay
26 - Sonnet XVIII - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay
27 - The Betrothal by Edna St Vincent Millay
28 - When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Fa
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