![]() Vincent Millay had been erroneously categorized as just another woman writing about love until feminist critics revived her canon with fresh insights into her. 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. In 1917, she published a first volume, Renascence and Other Poems, comprised of lyrics and both Elizabethan and Shakespearian sonnets. ![]() 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. ![]() Vincent Millay Kin to Sorrow The Little Tavern By Edna St. ![]() ![]() 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. Love has gone and left me, and the neighbors knock and borrow, And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse, And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow Theres this little street and this little house. Vincent Millay's childhood was a life of transient poverty. ![]()
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