Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Steepletop is a 500-acre (200 ha) estate on a hilly, wooded area in the northeastern corner of the town near the Massachusetts state line. Although located within the range of the Taconic Mountains, the area is adjacent to the Berkshire Hills and is considered part of the cultural region of the Berkshires, known for its rich diversity in music, arts and recreation.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Millay Arts, formerly the Millay Colony for the Arts, is an arts community offering residency-retreats and workshops in Austerlitz, New York, and free arts programs in local public schools. Housed on the former property of feminist/activist poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay , the Colony's campus offers residencies, retreats, and classes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
Millay Colony for the Arts, an artists' colony in Austerlitz, NY; Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, which holds the intellectual rights to the poet's work and runs Steepletop, the poet's house museum, in Austerlitz, New York
Sign in to your AOL account.
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression. [1]The poem was included in her collection Fatal Interview, a sequence of 52 sonnets, appearing alongside other sonnets such as "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields," and "Love me no more, now let the god depart," rejoicing in romantic language and vulnerability. [2]
She offers her sexual partner neither "love" nor "pity" (Millay 11, 12). This poem might serve as evidence that Millay truly was an emblem of the New Woman in "pursuit of authentic intimate relations without interference from artificial constraints, legal or social, or their psychological residue, jealousy." [3]