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She was fourteen when her first poems were published in St.

Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, in February of 1892. This came about as a suggestion from publishers when releasing her short stories, as it would make more money. Not only was she an impressive talent when it came to poetry, but she was also a celebrated playwright and opera writer, creating works such as ‘ Aria da capo,’ ‘ The Lamp and the Bell,’ and ‘The King’s Henchman.’ Despite her success, a lot of her verse and prose were written under the pen name Nancy Boyd. Many to this day consider her the greatest American sonneteer of all time. While her lyrics and prose were somewhat radical for the time period, she still grounded herself in the traditional rules of poetry. Millay was known for her complex writing style, sometimes inviting the reader to try and decipher a deeper meaning. Well-renowned critic Edmund Wilson even went as far as to say that she was “one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained to anything like the stature of great literary figures.” She is considered to be one of the most important poets of the 20th century.

Her home is now the site of the seven-acre Millay Colony for the Arts, and she has recently been named one of history’s most important LGBTQ icons. She garnered fame not only in New York City, where she built her career, but she made a name for herself worldwide. Vincent Millay’s reputation has only grown over the years. Contained in this volume, printed on a premium acid-free paper, are some of her most important works: "Renascence and Other Poems," "A Few Figs From Thistles," "Second April," and "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver." Product Details

Vincent Millay marks some of the best of the early 20th century. Noted for its lyrical beauty and at times controversial depiction of female sexuality, the poetry of Edna St. Edna would go on to win the highest prize for poetry, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, for her work "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver". Edna would first gain recognition when her 1912 poem "Renascence" garnered a fourth place prize in a poetry contest for "The Lyric Year". It was here that Edna would write some of her first lines of poetry. The family would finally settle in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town during their upbringing. Vincent Millay's childhood was a life of transient poverty.