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Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 - 1950 / Rockland /United States)
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay, born in 1892 in Maine, grew to become one of the premier twentieth-century lyric poets. She was also an accomplished playwright and speaker who often toured giving readings of her poetry. All of that was in her public life, but her private life was equally interesting. An unconventional childhood led into an unconventional adulthood. She was an acknowledged bisexual who carried on many affairs with women, an affection for which is sometimes evident in her poems and plays. She did marry, but even that part of her life was somewhat unusual, with the marriage being quite open, and extramarital affairs, though not documented, are quite probable. more >>
 
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''I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Afternoon on a Hill (l. 1-4). . ; pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. N...
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''It mattering not how beautiful you were,
Or how beloved above all else that dies.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. And You as Well Must Die, Beloved Dust (l. 13-14). . ; pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna S...
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Gabrielle A. Macdonald (1/18/2012 7:25:00 PM)
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One of the poems iin which Millay is shattered and humiliated not by the loss of love but by the travesty of justice during the Sacco-Vanzetti trumped up trial. Both were executed - more for being Italian immigrants and anarchists..than for anything based on evidence. Compare to the infamous Dreyfuss Affair in France.
The pernicious weeds have won, Millay's character thinks.
Michael Harmon (4/19/2009 4:24:00 PM)
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I guess my previous information was incorrect. This PH biography seems to imply she died from smoking; my understanding was that she fell down a flight of steps at her home and broke her neck.

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