Books: Edna Millay

Edna Millay

She Ranks Sixth or Seventh Among Contemporary Versifiers

Having won the Pulitzer Poetry Prize, having changed publishers and been married during the Spring and Summer as well as having been operated upon for appendicitis, Edna St. Vincent Millay doubtless now enjoys her convalescence with something like complacency. I cannot, somehow, think of her as complacent, however. This delicate, elfish woman is as restless, as full of vitality as a wheat field on a windy day.

Edna Millay was graduated from Vassar. Stories of her undergraduate...

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