RAPTURE AND MELANCHOLY The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay Edited by Daniel Mark Epstein ... Winters are long and hard; spring is a riot of blossoms. An entry from April 9, 1927, is typical ...

executive director of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society. “She was a rock star.” Like a lot of rock stars, Millay had been in a downward spiral for years before her actual fall. Addicted to ...

It was at a party in Greenwich Village, in the spring of 1920, that the critic Edmund Wilson first encountered Edna St. Vincent Millay ... Vassar. Millay enrolled in the fall of 1913, and threw ...

The poet Edna St. Vincent ... was “a spring-fed swimming pool where they and their guests swam au naturel. That was very '20s,” said Peppe, who worked on a dissertation on Millay and ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay poses for a portrait among magnolia blossoms. (Photo by © Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images) On April 3, 1911, Edna St. Vincent Millay took ...

“Millay was the generation of my grandmother, so when you begin the biography of someone of this age, ...

The celebrated poet Edna St. Vincent Millay liked to make rules, especially for a stream of artists and bohemians who came to visit during the Roaring '20s at her Columbia County farmhouse ...

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay ... crowds make those comparisons spring to mind. No contemporary star that I can think of so fully combines Millay’s brilliance and ...

A review of What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein, and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford. Like ...