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...

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...

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...