Edna St. Vincent Millay (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was known during her early career for her verse plays, the most successful being the first, Aria da Capo, first produced in 1919 and published in 1921, followed by The Lamp and the Bell and Two Slatterns and a King, also published in 1921, and The Princess Marries the Page (written during her student years at Vassar), published in 1932. Her reputation as a writer of verse for the stage was such that she was invited to write the libretto for a Deems Taylor opera commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera...

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