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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Born

in Rockland, Maine, The United States

February 22, 1892

Died

October 19, 1950

Genre

Poetry

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.

This famous portrait of Vincent (as she was called by friends) was taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1933.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 22,601 ratings · 1,373 reviews · 132 distinct works • Similar authors

	Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 7,872 ratings — published 1956 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Selected Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Milford (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — published 1991 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Bornschlegel (Designed by) , Norma Millay (Introduction) 4.36 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 1917 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Renascence and Other Poems 4.23 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 1917 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poems 4.40 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 1923 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Few Figs from Thistles 4.18 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 1920 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay (Designed by) 4.35 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1939 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Works Of Edna St. Vincent Millay 4.61 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems 4.22 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatal Interview: Sonnets 4.52 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1931 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: longing, love, missing, sadness

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“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer

3071 likes

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: loneliness, loss, yearning

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Polls

Who is your favorite poet?

Edgar Allan Poe

21 votes, 9.6%

Emily Dickinson

19 votes, 8.7%

Robert Frost

15 votes, 6.9%

William Butler Yeats

15 votes, 6.9%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

14 votes, 6.4%

William Blake (write-in)

11 votes, 5.0%

William Shakespeare

9 votes, 4.1%

Sylvia Plath

8 votes, 3.7%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

7 votes, 3.2%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

7 votes, 3.2%

Robert frost (write-in)

6 votes, 2.8%

Christina Rossetti

5 votes, 2.3%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes

5 votes, 2.3%

Alfred Tennyson

5 votes, 2.3%

Robert Burns

5 votes, 2.3%

Jon Keats (write-in)

5 votes, 2.3%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

5 votes, 2.3%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5 votes, 2.3%

Franz Kafka (write-in)

4 votes, 1.8%

Carl Sandburg

3 votes, 1.4%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

3 votes, 1.4%

Bob Dylan

3 votes, 1.4%

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3 votes, 1.4%

Charles Baudelaire (write-in)

3 votes, 1.4%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

3 votes, 1.4%

I'm not a fan of poetry (write-in)

3 votes, 1.4%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)

3 votes, 1.4%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)

3 votes, 1.4%

George Sterling (write-in)

2 votes, 0.9%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 0.9%

Anne Sexton

2 votes, 0.9%

Stephen Vincent Benét

1 vote, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Big L (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Robert Louis Stevenson

1 vote, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Alfred Noyes

0 votes, 0.0%

James Whitcomb Riley

0 votes, 0.0%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

218 total votes

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