{"title":"Edna St Vincent Millay","description":"Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and grew up in the seaside town of Camden. She published her first poems as a teenager and, at twenty, her long poem \"Renascence\" appeared in the anthology The Lyric Year. At Vassar, she developed her talents and reputation as a dramatist and actor. After graduating in 1917, Millay moved to Greenwich Village in New York City where she gave poetry readings and became known for her freedom of thought and feminist views. Her poetry was published in several magazines, including Vanity Fair, Poetry, and Forum. Her first book, Renascence and Other Poems (1917), was followed in 1920 by A Few Figs from Thistles (an expanded edition appeared in 1922) and in 1921 by Second April.In 1923, upon her return from two years of writing and traveling in Europe, Millay received the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and published a new collection, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems. Millay published five more collections of poetry:  The Buck in the Snow (1928), Fatal Interview (1931), Wine from These Grapes (1934), Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939), Make Bright the Arrows (1940); a prose collection under her pen name, Nancy Boyd, titled Distressing Dialogues (1924; its foreword carried Millay's byline); a translation, with George Dillon, of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (1936); the verse dramas Conversation at Midnight (1937) and The Murder of Lidice (1942); and several plays. Her final book was the posthumously published Mine the Harvest (1954), edited by her younger sister Norma. Edna St. Vincent Millay died in 1950. Holly Peppe, who holds a master of arts in teaching from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of New Hampshire, is a former professor and director of the English department at the American College of Rome and a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar. Dr. Peppe--whose doctoral dissertation focuses on Millay's critical reception and sonnet sequences, and who often lectures on Millay--has served as president of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society since 1987. The Society is responsible for the preservation of Steepletop, the poet's home (designated a National Public Landmark) in Austerlitz, New York, and the placement of the poet's archives and family papers. Dr. Peppe is also involved with the Millay Colony for the Arts, an artists' retreat at Steepletop founded in 1973 by Norma Millay. Dr. Peppe's own poetry, translations, articles, and essays have appeared in numerous books and periodicals. She lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"early-poems-paperback","title":"Early Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMillay's first three books of lyrics and sonnets are collected here: \u003ci\u003eRenascence, Second April\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Few Figs from Thistles\u003c\/i\u003e. With a balanced and appreciative introduction and useful annotations, this volume presents some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's best work in which she weaves intellect, emotion, and irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376697409759,"sku":"9780141180540","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4SZLu2Z-bV9780141180540.webp?v=1789221721"},{"product_id":"millay-poems-edited-by-diana-secker-tesdell-hardcover","title":"Millay: Poems: Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of America's most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume includes the early poems that many consider her best-- \"Renascence\" and \"The Ballad of the Harp Weaver\" among them--as well as such often-memorized favorites 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 antiwar fable \u003ci\u003eAria da Capo, \u003c\/i\u003eis included here as well.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376723919071,"sku":"9780307592668","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7ZNWPpmSKq9780307592668.webp?v=1789221790"},{"product_id":"collected-lyrics-of-edna-st-vincent-millay-paperback","title":"Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese unique and beautiful lyrics -- over two hundred of them -- were selected by Edna St. Vincent Millay herself and represent the major portion of her lifework. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Their musical perfection, emotional power, and superb, delicate workmanship have made Edna St. Vincent Millay one of America's great poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese unique and beautiful lyrics -- over two hundred of them -- were selected by Edna St. Vincent Millay herself and represent the major portion of her lifework. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Their musical perfection, emotional power, and superb, delicate workmanship have made Edna St. Vincent Millay one of America's great poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378184978655,"sku":"9780060908638","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1TiAOP8RVq9780060908638.webp?v=1789250796"},{"product_id":"the-selected-poetry-of-edna-st-vincent-millay-paperback","title":"The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet's most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality--featuring a new introduction by poet Olivia Gatwood, author of \u003ci\u003eLife of the Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation as one of the most critically acclaimed poets of the Modernist era. Her work pushed boundaries within the literary canon for its lyrical expression of female embodiment and progressive feminist politics, and she was honored as only the third woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates Millay's legacy and influence on contemporary poetry. Sometimes satirical, often sharp, and always striking, the poems in this collection span Millay's remarkable career, from the success of \u003ci\u003eRenascence and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e to the sting of \u003ci\u003eA Few Figs from Thistles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSecond April\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver\" and eight sonnets from the early twenties. Millay's incandescent poetry continues to inspire today as broadly and deeply as during her lifetime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAMERICAN INDIAN STORIES - THE AWAKENING - THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY - THE HEADS OF CERBERUS - LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET - LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS - PASSING - THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN - VILLETTE - THERE IS CONFUSION - THE SELECTED POEMS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of America's most celebrated poets--and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923--Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures the poet's unique spirit in works like \"Renascence and Other Poems, \"A Few Figs from This-tles, and \"Second April, as well as in \"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver\" and eight sonnets from the early twenties. As Milford writes in her Introduction, \"These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millay's reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378244255967,"sku":"9780375761232","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ATcXb9XILv9780375761232.webp?v=1789250849"},{"product_id":"collected-sonnets-paperback","title":"Collected Sonnets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems--including 20 sonnets from \u003cem\u003eMine the Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e not contained in previous editions of her \u003cem\u003eCollected Sonnets--\u003c\/em\u003eare brought together in this expanded edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses on examples of the poet's variations in sonnet structure. Here is the voice of Millay, whose prophetic vision, devotion to freedom, and intellectual daring combine with her mastery of the sonnet form to speak eloquently for the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than 180 sonnets selected from Millay's books of poems -- including 20 sonnets from \u003cem\u003eMine the Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e not contained in previous editions of her \u003cem\u003eCollected Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e -- are brought together in this new, expanded edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introduction by Norma Millay, written expressly for this volume, focuses on examples of the poet's variations in sonnet structure. 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Alongside Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and E. E. Cummings, Millay remains among the most celebrated poets of the early 20th century for her uniquely lyrical explorations of love, individuality, and artistic expression.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMillay, winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, and songs. She infused new life into traditional poetic forms, bringing hope to a generation of youth disillusioned by the political and social upheaval of the First World War. She ventured fearlessly beyond familiar poetic subjects to tackle political injustice, social discrimination, and feminist themes like women's sexuality in her poems and prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet this collection of classic American poetry is still decisively modern in its message, and it continues to resonate with readers facing personal and moral issues that defy the test of time: romantic love, loss, betrayal, compassion for one another, social equality, patriotism, and the stewardship of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis invaluable compendium of her work is not only an essential addition to any collection of the world's most moving and memorable poetry but an unprecedented look into the life of Millay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy candle burns at both ends;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It will not last the night;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e It gives a lovely light!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"First Fig\" from \u003ci\u003eA Few Figs from Thistles\u003c\/i\u003e (1920)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize-Winning Poetry: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover the work that earned Millay the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, cementing her place alongside titans of American literature like Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTimeless Sonnets and Lyrical Verse: \u003c\/b\u003e Experience Millay's masterful ability to infuse classic forms with a daring, modern sensibility that speaks to the heart of love, loss, and individuality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIconic and Unforgettable Poems: \u003c\/b\u003e This collection includes some of the most famous lines in American poetry, from the defiant 'My candle burns at both ends' to her final volume, \u003ci\u003eMine the Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThemes of Love, Nature, and Social Justice: \u003c\/b\u003e Explore a remarkable range of emotion, from passionate explorations of romantic love and the natural world to fearless critiques of social injustice and discrimination.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), winner in 1923 of the second annual Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a daring, versatile writer whose work includes plays, essays, short stories, songs, and the libretto to an opera that premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera House to rave reviews. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMillay infused new life into traditional poetic forms, bringing new hope to a generation of youth disillusioned by the political and social upheaval of the First World War. She ventured fearlessly beyond familiar poetic subjects to tackle political injustice, social discrimination, and women's sexuality in her poems and prose. In the 1920s and '30s, Millay was considered a spokesperson for personal freedom in America, particularly for women, and we turn to her lines to illuminate the social history of the period and the Bohemian lifestyle she and her friends enjoyed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet Millay's poetry is still decisively modern in its message, and it continues to resonate with readers facing personal and moral issues that defy the test of time: romantic love, loss, betrayal, compassion for one another, social equality, patriotism, and the stewardship of the natural world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e features Millay's incisive and impassioned lyric poetry and sonnets, many of which are considered among the finest in the language, as well as the poet's last volume, \u003cem\u003eMine the Harvest\u003c\/em\u003e, compiled and published in 1956 by her sister Norma Millay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378533794015,"sku":"9780062015273","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/TH_U9jOr1U9780062015273.webp?v=1789257991"},{"product_id":"renascence-and-other-poems-hardcover","title":"Renascence and Other Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften considered her best work, and one of the best-known American poems, the long poem \"Renascence\" is credited with introducing Edna St. Vincent Millay to a the broader world. 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