The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

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When Edna St. Vincent Millay won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems, she was the first woman and only the second poet to win this award given annually since 1917 from an endowment created by the American newspaper publisher, Joseph Pulitzer. (Millay had been a finalist for the prize in 1922 but lost to the poet Edward Arlington Robinson, whose Collected Poems (1921) was chosen instead of her book of poetry, Few Figs (1920). When The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems was published in November, 1923, Millay...

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