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Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Name: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Birth Date: February 27, 1892
Death Date: October 19, 1950
Place of Birth: Rockland, Maine, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American lyric poet whose personal life and verse burned meteorically through the imaginations of rebellious youth during the 1920s.Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on Feb. 27, 1892, and was educated in her native state. One of her juvenile poems appeared in St. Nicholas, and she delivered a verse essay at high school graduation. "Renascence," a long poem written when she was 19, appeared in The Lyric Year (1912), an anthology, and remains a favorite. A wealthy friend, impressed with Edna's talent, helped her attend Vassar College.Following her graduation in 1917, Millay settled in New York's Greenwich Village and began to support herself by writing. Her impact was immediate with her first volume, Renascence (1917). She also wrote short stories under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. A Few Figs from Thistles appeared in 1920. In 1921 she issued Second April and three short plays, one of which, Aria …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…her mixed tone of insouciance, disillusionment, courage, and intensity and her lyric gifts were highly appreciated in her time. Further Reading Nancy Milford had access to hundreds of personal papers, letters, and notebooks while writing Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2001). The result is a stunningly complete, readable, and intriguing biography of Millay. A. R. Macdougall edited the Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952). Biographies include Miriam Gurko, Restless Spirit: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1962), and Jean Gould, The Poet and Her Book (1969). Other studies are Elizabeth Atkins, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Times (1937); Vincent Sheean, The Indigo Bunting (1951); and Norman A. Brittin, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1967). Van Wyck Brooks, in New England: Indian Summer (1940), discusses Miss Millay's place in literary history; and Edmund Wilson, in Shores of Light (1952), retains his youthful personal affection for her and his high opinion of her literary merit.
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