Passionately admired, Eda St. Vincent Millays works are some of the most often memorized of modern poetry.
Early Works of Edna St. Millay reprints the early poems and plays that created the famous figure of the ‘girl poet.’ Published between 1917 and 1921, and collected in this volume, are the three books of poems
Renascence and Other Poems,
A Few Figs from the Thistles, and
Second April, and the three plays
Aria da Capo,
The Harp and the Bell, and
Two Slatterns and a King.
About the author
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22nd, 1892, in Rockland, Maine. She acquired her middle name from St. Vincents Hospital, where her maternal uncle had recently been treated, and throughout her life she was known to friends and family as ‘Vincent’ rather than Edna. She published her first poem in
St. Nicholas Magazine for children when she was fourteen. She was hailed as a poetic prodigy when she published ‘Renascence’ in 1912.
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