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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 · 24,869 ratings · 1,622 reviews · 152 distinct works • Similar authors

	Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 8,126 ratings — published 1956 — 12 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 — 1,749 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) 4.35 avg rating — 911 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 4.22 avg rating — 1,108 ratings — published 1917 — 79 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 — 628 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 4.19 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1920 — 54 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) 4.34 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1939 — 8 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 4.57 avg rating — 198 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 4.21 avg rating — 439 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 — 137 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

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“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

34 votes, 10.0%

Emily Dickinson

27 votes, 7.9%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

20 votes, 5.9%

William Shakespeare

18 votes, 5.3%

William Butler Yeats

17 votes, 5.0%

Robert Frost

17 votes, 5.0%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

12 votes, 3.5%

Sylvia Plath

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William Blake (write-in)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Jon Keats (write-in)

8 votes, 2.3%

Alfred Tennyson

8 votes, 2.3%

Robert Burns

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

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Bob Dylan

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Christina Rossetti

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Seamus Heaney (write-in)

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W. H. Auden (write-in)

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Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 1.2%

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

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

4 votes, 1.2%

Charles Baudelaire (write-in)

4 votes, 1.2%

George Sterling (write-in)

3 votes, 0.9%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)

3 votes, 0.9%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)

3 votes, 0.9%

Carl Sandburg

3 votes, 0.9%

Lord Byron (write-in)

3 votes, 0.9%

Lang Leav (write-in)

2 votes, 0.6%

Anne Sexton

2 votes, 0.6%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

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Clement Clarke Moore

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Paul Celan (write-in)

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Sara Teasdale (write-in)

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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)

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A. S. Pushkin (write-in)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

2 votes, 0.6%

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1 vote, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Big L (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

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Edward Lear (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Sonya Sones (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Stephen Vincent Benét

1 vote, 0.3%

Victor Hugo (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Robert Louis Stevenson

1 vote, 0.3%

Idea Vilariño (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

James Whitcomb Riley

1 vote, 0.3%

Herman Hesse (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

Marin Sorescu (write-in)

1 vote, 0.3%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Alfred Noyes

0 votes, 0.0%

341 total votes

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