Edna St. Vincent Millay (Critical Survey of Drama)
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Edna St. Vincent Millay is known primarily for her poetry rather than for her plays. In 1912 at the age of twenty, she entered a poetry contest with “Renascence.” Although her poem only finished fourth, it was included in The Lyric Year, which consisted of the top one hundred poems out of approximately ten thousand submitted. The critical reaction was overwhelming positive, and she came to the attention of the American literary community. She continued to write poetry for the rest of her life, selling her work to magazines and collecting it into...
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