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 Thistles (1920), and Second April (1921). The first, a 214-line poem revealing a mystical view of the universe, God, and death, caused a sensation as the work of a girl just turned twenty. The second, a sassy celebration of feminism and free love, caught the mood of Greenwich Village life in the racy postwar period of the 1920s. Second April showed a more honest approach to the already favorite Millay themes of death, love, and nature. Millay's admirers also commend Aria da Capo (1920), a verse play on the foolishness of war, and certain of her sonnets, especially "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare" (1923) and the sequences, "Epitaph for the Race of Man" (1934) and "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree" (1923).
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