Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

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Edna St Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine on 22nd February, 1892. Cora St Vincent Millay raised Edna and her three sisters on her own after her husband left the family home. When Edna was twenty her poem, Renascence, was published in The Lyric Year. As a result of this poem Edna won a scholarship to Vassar. In 1917, the year of her graduation, Millay published her first book, Renascence and Other Poems. After leaving Vassar she moved to New York's Greenwich Village where she befrien.. Continue..

Some of Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why (Sonnet XLIII)

Love Is Not All

Modern Declaration

First Fig

Travel

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	A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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