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 was...

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 This...

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 This...

If the Public Garden purloined swan caper is beginning to sound like the old "Who's On First?" gag, there's a reason. First of all, the swan that was allegedly stolen from the Swan Boat lagoon in the Garden last Tuesday was not Romeo,...

My bookshelf contains an eclectic assortment of volumes: philosophical classics, history, biography, travel, novels, mystery stories for light reading, and a set of contemporary feminist books in philosophy and theology which I read as part of a book club. I have selected three volumes...

Britain confirmed its first outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu in a domestic flock on Saturday, saying the virus has been detected on a farm owned by Europe's largest turkey producer where 2,500 turkeys died.As a precaution all 159,000 turkeys will be slaughtered on the...

Tests by an EU laboratory have confirmed an outbreak of bird flu which killed about 2,500 turkeys on a British poultry farm is the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus, the European Commission said Saturday.It is the first time that the H5N1 strain has been...