Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Edna St. Vincent( 1892–1950),born in Maine, graduated from Vassar (1917) having already won fame with the publication of “Renascence” (1912), the title poem of her first volume, Renascence and Other Poems (1917), which exhibited technical virtuosity, startling freshness, and a hunger for beauty. A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) showed that though the disillusion of the postwar years was crowding in upon her, she was attempting to maintain gaiety with a consciously cynical flippancy. With Second April (1921) she revealed a more mature emotional tone, which, like her use of Elizabethan words and tight metrical forms, marked her subsequent volumes. While living in Greenwich Village, she became associated with the Provincetown Players, for whom she wrote The Princess Marries the Page (1918, published in 1932), Aria da Capo (1919, published 1921), and Two Slatterns and a King (1921), all...
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