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 ...

Those commentators unsympathetic to Millay’s efforts to write poetry of explicit political critique have treated "Justice Denied in Massachusetts" as somewhat of a notorious fall ... Edna St. Vincent ...

Having won the Pulitzer Poetry Prize, having changed publishers and been married during the Spring and Summer as well as having been operated upon for appendicitis, Edna St. Vincent Millay ...

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 ...

Now Milford returns with ”Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay” (Random House, $29.95), the biography of another woman passed over by literary history. If the name isn’t ...

When Edna St Vincent Millay was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in ... She delights in forsythia in the early spring, snowstorms in winter. ‘Heard a phoebe this morning’; ‘The pasture fence is ...

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 ...

SPENCERTOWN — To mark the centennial celebration of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s purchase of the Steepletop property in Austerlitz, New York, Millay Society literary ...

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 ...

There she met Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Little Review editors Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, and other influential modernists. Abbott may be ...