Edna St. Vincent Millay

One of the most successful poets in America and a fascinating literary figure of the early twentieth century, Edna St. Vincent Millay found her voice in a national poetry contest at the age of twenty. Her poems received critical praise and became the first step toward receiving the Pulitzer Award years later. An acclaimed poet of the Jazz Age, this liberated, often rebellious, woman enchanted us with her beautiful sonnets and lyrics, even as she surprised...

"The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 -- 1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that is especially characteristic of her early works. "Renascence," the first of her poems to bring her public acclaim, was written when she was nineteen. Now one of the best-known American poems, it is a fervent and moving account of spiritual rebirth. In 1917, "Renascence" was incorporated into her first volume of poetry, which is reprinted here, complete...

A selection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay especially chosen for young people.

With the publication of Second April in 1921 and A Few Figs from Thistles in the following year, Edna St. Vincent Millay gave voice to the impassioned youth of her era. This excellent anthology comprises both works in their entirety, including such well-known and much-studied poems as "First Fig," "Recuerdo," and "The Philosopher."

Uses the imagined viewpoint of Edna St. Vincent Millay to recreate her early years as a poet in New York City. Includes her poem "Recuerdo" and a brief profile of her life.