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"Renascence" is a 1912 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, credited with introducing her to the wider world, and often considered one of her finest poems. The poem is a 200+ line lyric poem, written in the first person, broadly encompassing the relationship of an individual to humanity and nature. The narrator is contemplating a vista from a ...
Millay's fame began in 1912 when, at the age of 20, she entered her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year. The backer of the contest, Ferdinand P. Earle , chose Millay as the winner after sorting through thousands of entries, reading only two lines apiece.
(title poem first published under name E. Vincent Millay in The Lyric Year, 1912; collection includes God's World), M. Kennerley, 1917. reprinted, Books for Libraries Press, 1972. A Few Figs From Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets, F. Shay, 1920. 2nd [enlarged] Edna St. Vincent Millay (1921). A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnets. F. Shay.
75. “A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.” – Carl Sandburg 76. “You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard.
EDNA St. Vincent Millay's poem "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The works of EDNA St. Vincent Millay continue to be referenced in modern culture.
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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]