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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Born

in Rockland, Maine, The United States

February 22, 1892

Died

October 19, 1950

Genre

Poetry, Plays

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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: 4.17 · 28,549 ratings · 2,194 reviews · 191 distinct works • Similar authors

	Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 8,397 ratings — published 1956 — 14 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) 4.18 avg rating — 1,930 ratings — published 1991 — 15 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 — 1,251 ratings — published 1917 — 152 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) 4.35 avg rating — 975 ratings — published 1917 — 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
	Millay 4.36 avg rating — 752 ratings — published 1923 — 21 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 4.17 avg rating — 608 ratings — published 1920 — 86 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 4.15 avg rating — 581 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	Collected Lyrics by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay (Designed by) 4.28 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 1939 — 5 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
	Second April 4.12 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 1921 — 82 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 4.56 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2008 — 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

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“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

3219 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

43 votes, 8.4%

Emily Dickinson

41 votes, 8.1%

Sylvia Plath

27 votes, 5.3%

William Shakespeare

22 votes, 4.3%

Robert Frost

21 votes, 4.1%

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21 votes, 4.1%

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18 votes, 3.5%

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17 votes, 3.3%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

15 votes, 2.9%

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15 votes, 2.9%

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13 votes, 2.6%

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13 votes, 2.6%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

12 votes, 2.4%

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10 votes, 2.0%

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Robert Burns

9 votes, 1.8%

Alfred Tennyson

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8 votes, 1.6%

I'm not a fan of poetry

8 votes, 1.6%

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Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 0.8%

Charles Baudelaire

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Carl Sandburg

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Edward Lear (write-in)

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3 votes, 0.6%

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Wilfred Owen (write-in)

3 votes, 0.6%

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3 votes, 0.6%

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W.B. Yeats (write-in)

3 votes, 0.6%

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3 votes, 0.6%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 0.4%

Robert Louis Stevenson

2 votes, 0.4%

Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.4%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

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2 votes, 0.4%

Anne Sexton

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Hugo Claus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

Georg Trakl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

Ivan Vazov (write-in)

2 votes, 0.4%

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1 vote, 0.2%

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Big L (write-in)

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1 vote, 0.2%

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1 vote, 0.2%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Victor Hugo (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)

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Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)

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James Joyce (write-in)

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William McGonagall (write-in)

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john donne (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

JoAnna Novak (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes

0 votes, 0.0%

Sonya Sones

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Cemal Süreya (write-in)

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509 total votes

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