false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170540120m/60316.jpg 60316 9 One of America&#8217;s most celebrated poets&#8212;and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923&#8212;Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures the poet&#8217;s unique spirit in works like <i>Renascence and Other Poems</i>, <i>A Few Figs from This-tles</i>, and <i>Second April</i>, as well as in &#8220;The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver&#8221; and eight sonnets from the early twenties. As Milford writes in her Introduction, &#8220;These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millay&#8217;s reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page.&#8221; 58678 1991 The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Library Classics) total:301|5:150|4:99|3:45|2:7|1:0| 301 1295 429 28 4 4 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 07:02:51 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 13:34:20 -0700 2009 cultured little thing, and well- how couldn't I? That reason...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 19:53:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 14:08:27 -0700 2009 For spring, for autumn, the end of silence,
For beauties, lovers departed long since,
For all her previous states of being,
With such a sorrowful way of seeing,
With joy unexpressed, save in the past tense,
This heart exposed behind ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 24 22:07:03 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 22:09:21 -0800 2008 She's not my favorite poet for nothing.]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Jan 02 12:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 12:00:00 -0800 2008 First Fig?:

    My candle burns at both ends;
      It will not last the night;
    But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-
      It gives a lovely light!

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