Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American lyric poet whose personal life and verse burned meteorically through the imaginations of rebellious youth during the 1920s. Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on Feb. 27, 1892, and...

Despite a publishing career that spanned three decades and a canon that ranges from lyrics to verse plays and political commentary, Edna St. Vincent Millay is probably best known for her early works, particularly "Renascence" (1912), A Few Figs from...

During a century when few poets were writing drama, and fewer playwrights were writing verse, Edna St. Vincent Millay excelled as a capable author of both. In 1923 Millay became the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry. During her...

The quintessential romantic American poetess of the 1910s and 1920s, Edna St. Vincent Millay became a popular heroine to an entire generation of girls who grew up dreaming of becoming modern women writers. Millay's family was an unconventional...

Best known for her poetic chronicles of the Jazz Age of the 1920s, Millay's work opened a range of new subject matter to women authors. Her writings also helped popularize a new, more liberated way of life for women in the 1920s and 1930s....

Edna St. Vincent Millay Born February 22, 1892 (Rockland, Maine)Died October 19, 1950 (Austerlitz, New York) Poet and dramatist Recognized as one of the most accomplished poets of the twentieth century, Edna St. Vincent Millay was an especially famous...

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many...

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay NANCY MILFORD Random House, 576 Pages THE ECLIPSE DURING THE PAST FEW DECADES of Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose poetry lit up the 1920s and '30s, is a mere vagary of fashion:...

A certain quatrain dances in the memory of those of us old enough to remember when poetry had rhyme, rhythm and resonance: My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my...

Twin baby grand pianos stand in the living room of a white clapboard farmhouse high on the Taconic Ridge on the border of New York and Massachusetts. Here the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay composed and played...

More than 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston, they still inspire impassioned debate about whether they were guilty of the murders of two men during a 1920 payroll robbery.But in a new exhibit at the state's highest court, the...

Written as a Shakespearean sonnet and in a sentimental tone, Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink" expresses the frustrations of love, while also conveying the importance of love throughout life. The emotional content of this poem shows Millay's true feeling towards love, because she is willing to overlook all that it is not and even deal with hardships in order to be in love.