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Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, in 1892. When Edna was seven years old, her mother Cora asked Edna's father to leave. Cora was a nurse and always encouraged her daughters to pursue music and literature. Cora encouraged Edna to enter a poetry contest. In doing this, Edna won a scholarship to Vassar College after her poem "Renascence" won fourth place. She graduated from Vassar College in 1917, which is the same year Renascence and Other Poems was published. At one time, Edna was romantically involved with Wynne Matthison, a British actress. The two wrote passionate letters to each other. In one letter, Edna wrote, "You wrote me a beautiful letter,I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was.I think you did, for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of love When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally be meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to you." Edna had many romantic relationships with women before her marriage to Eugen Boissevain in 1923. It is unknown if she continued to have relationships with women during her marriage. It is also unknown which of her poems were written about women and which were written about men. They were married all the way until Eugen's death in 1949.

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web hosting domain names email addresses related sites Edna St. Vincent Millay Renascence Renascence and Other Poems, 1917 All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin and fine, Straight around till I was come Back to where I'd started from; And all I saw from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. Over these things I could not see; These were the things that bounded me; And I could touch them with my hand, Almost, I thought, from where I stand. And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short, and scarce at all. But, sure, the sky is big, I said; Miles and miles above my head; So here upon my back I'll lie And look my fill into the sky. And so I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall. The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And sure enough! I see the top! The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try

84. Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, as the daughter of HenryTolman Millay, a school principal, and Cora Lounella (Buzzelle) Millay. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/millay.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet and dramatist, who became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems (1922). The title work was a tribute to her selfless and encouraging mother. Millay's unconventional life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s embodied the spirit of the New Woman - sexual freedom, independence, and political activism. Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly In my own way, and with my full consent. If I had loved you less or played you slyly I might have held you a summer more, But at the cost of words I value highly ... (from 'Sonnet XLVII', in Fatal Interview Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, as the daughter of Henry Tolman Millay, a school principal, and Cora Lounella (Buzzelle) Millay. (Millay's middle name derived from the French priest St. Vincent de Paul) Her father had a weakness for poker playing, and although he deserted his family, Millay kept contact with him. After divorce in 1900 Cora Millay moved with her three daughters, Edna, Norma, and Kathleen, to Camden, into a small house in the poorest part of the town. To support her family she worked as a district nurse and was often away on assignment. Trained to be a singer, she coached town orchestras and wrote out scores for their members. She also encouraged her daughters in their musical and poetic ambitions, and taught Edna to write poetry at the age of five.

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Submitted Poems Featured Poems Classic Poems List Randomly ... List Newest Search classic poems by: Author's last name , Poem title or Poem ID#. You may type fewer letters if you are not sure of the exact spelling Below is a list of most recent classic love poems. Warning! Poems on this list can move down the list very rapidly! A poem may move a page or more in a single day. Of Pearls and Stars New Love Heinrich Heine Why Is The Rose So Pale The Pains of Love Heinrich Heine So We'll Go No More A-roving The Philosophy of Love George Gordon, Lord Byron Untitled Love Declared Unknown (13th Century) (? - 13th Century) To Mary Love Remembered John Clare Eulalie Abiding Love Edgar Allen Poe The Banks Of Bonnie Doon The Pains of Love Robert Burns The Lake Suicide Edgar Allen Poe To One in Paradise Love and Death Edgar Allen Poe To Helen Love Described Edgar Allen Poe Evening Song Abiding Love Sidney Lanier My True Love Has My Heart Abiding Love Philip Sidney She Is Not Fair To Outward View Entrapped by Love Hartley Coleridge Young and Old Love Remembered Charles Kingsely When I Was One-And-Twenty The Pains of Love A. E. Housman

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) a web guide from literaryhistory.com main page 20th century authors General Articles http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/millay/millay.htm An introduction, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois). http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=161 An introduction to the poet from the Academy of American Poets. http://mason-west.com/Millay A biographical introduction to Millay from grad student Mason West. http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/print_archive/alerts1089.html#masquerading Brief article on the feminine-poetess image of Millay, "Masquerading : Edna St. Vincent Millay and Nancy Boyd," by Deborah Woodard in HOW(ever), Vol. 5, No. 4 (October, 1989) http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/20/sept01/millay.htm A discussion of Millay's career in a review of two biographies: What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay , by Daniel Mark Epstein; and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford, "Edna St. Vincent Millay's Doubly Burning Candles" by X. J. Kennedy

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Edna St. Vincent Millay Biography Edna St. Vincent Millay was raised in a small Maine town by a highly supportive divorced mother, who encouraged her daughters to read, develop their musical talents, and follow their ambitions. Millay graduated from Vassar College and then moved to the Greenwich Village section of New York City, home to avant-garde artists and political radicals. She acted and wrote plays for the Provincetown Players, located in the Village, and became known as the epitome of the modern woman because of her vivacity, sexual liberation, and independent spirit. She was also an activist who protested the Sacco and Vanzetti executions and argued for America's early entrance into World War II. Her works include Renascence and Other Poems (1917) and her Pulitzer prize-winning Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Explorations The anthology includes love sonnets, I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently (1922) and [ I, being born a woman ] (1923), in which a woman addresses a man. There are plenty of love sonnets in the Anglo-American tradition but the usual pattern is for these to be male voices speaking to or about women; and when women poets respond on the subject of love or sexuality, their poems have traditionally been abstract and spiritual. Like Claude McKay , Millay uses tight traditional forms to achieve intensity: disturbing and heretical themes in poised, polished stanzas. When she writes about love, passion, or faith, she uses plain language; to read Millay is to experience an often-astounding contrast between the urbanity and civility of her lines and the surprising thoughts that erupt within them.

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