Edna St. Vincent Millay (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Despite the intricacies of its rhetoric, the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (mihl-AY) speaks directly and intensely of the emotions. Her work both inspired and shocked the generation to whom she first became a symbol of female freedom. Born to a nurse, Cora Lounella, and Henry Tolman, a schoolteacher, Vincent Millay (as she was known to her family) began writing verse in adolescence and won several poetry prizes from St. Nicholas magazine. At the age of nineteen she composed her first mature poem, “Renascence,” which was published in The Lyric Year in 1912 and...
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