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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters, and was encouraged by her mother to develop her talents for music and poetry. Her long p...view moreEdna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters, and was encouraged by her mother to develop her talents for music and poetry. Her long poem "Renascence" won critical attention in an anthology contest in 1912 and secured for her a patron who enabled her to go to Vassar College.
After graduating in 1917 she lived in Greenwich Village in New York for a few years, acting, writing satirical pieces for journals (usually under a pseudonym), and continuing to work at her poetry. She traveled in Europe throughout 1921-22 as a "foreign correspondent" for Vanity Fair. Her collection A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) gained her a reputation for hedonistic wit and cynicism, but her other collections (including the earlier Renascence and Other Poems [1917]) are without exception more seriously passionate or reflective.
In 1923 she married Eugene Boissevain and -- after further travel -- embarked on a series of reading tours which helped to consolidate her nationwide renown. From 1925 onwards she lived at Steepletop, a farmstead in Austerlitz, New York, where her husband protected her from all responsibilities except her creative work. Often involved in feminist or political causes (including the Sacco-Vanzetti case of 1927), she turned to writing anti-fascist propaganda poetry in 1940 and further damaged a reputation already in decline. In her last years of her life she became more withdrawn and isolated, and her health, which had never been robust, became increasingly poor.
She died in 1950.view less
Books by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, Second April, and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver) Poems: "Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Few Figs from Thistles: The Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Few Figs from Thistles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Afternoon on a Hill - Love Letters to Nature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEarly Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Little Ghost - And Other Poems on Grief and Healing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFirst Fig and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second April Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kin to Sorrow - The Self Reflections of Edna St. Vincent Millay Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Audiobooks by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRenascence and Other Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second April Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Few Figs from Thistles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Voices of Poetry, Volume 2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Recuerdo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings