Renascence and Other Poems (Esprios Classics)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22 1892 - October 19 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Encouraged to read the classics at home she was too rebellious to make a success of formal education but she won poetry prizes from an early age including the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 and went on to use verse as a medium for her feminist activism. She also wrote verse-dramas and a highly-praised opera The King's Henchman. Her novels appeared under the name Nancy Boyd and she refused lucrative offers to publish them under her own name. Millay was a prominent social figure of New York City's Greenwich Village just as it was becoming known as a bohemian writer's colony.