Poems: Edna St Vincent Millay (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS) - Hardcover

Millay, Edna St Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841597856 ISBN 13: 9781841597850

Publisher: Everyman, 2010

Synopsis

One of America's best-loved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the 1920s ceased to shock them. Millay's refreshing frankness and cynicism and her ardent appetite for life still burn brightly on the page more than half a century after her death.

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Book Description:

This volume includes her early poems that many consider her best - 'Renascence' and 'The Ballad of the Harp Weaver' among them - as well as favourites such as 'What lips my lips have kissed' and 'First Fig' ("My candle burns at both ends ..."). The poet's most famous verse drama, the one-act anti-war fable Aria da Capo, is included here as well.

About the Author:

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1841597856
• ISBN 13: 9781841597850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224