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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 · 21,907 ratings · 1,297 reviews · 126 distinct works • Similar authors

	Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Norma Millay (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 7,785 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 — 1,605 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 Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ruth Bornschlegel (Designed by) , Norma Millay (Introduction) 4.37 avg rating — 851 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 4.24 avg rating — 961 ratings — published 1917 — 61 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 4.39 avg rating — 517 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 — 447 ratings — published 1920 — 35 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) 4.37 avg rating — 317 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 4.62 avg rating — 172 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 — 376 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 4.51 avg rating — 125 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

21 votes, 11.0%

Emily Dickinson

19 votes, 9.9%

Robert Frost

15 votes, 7.9%

William Butler Yeats

14 votes, 7.3%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

13 votes, 6.8%

William Blake (write-in)

10 votes, 5.2%

William Shakespeare

8 votes, 4.2%

Sylvia Plath

7 votes, 3.7%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

6 votes, 3.1%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

6 votes, 3.1%

Jon Keats (write-in)

5 votes, 2.6%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

5 votes, 2.6%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5 votes, 2.6%

Robert frost (write-in)

5 votes, 2.6%

Alfred Tennyson

4 votes, 2.1%

Carl Sandburg

4 votes, 2.1%

Robert Burns

4 votes, 2.1%

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

4 votes, 2.1%

Christina Rossetti

4 votes, 2.1%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

3 votes, 1.6%

Franz Kafka (write-in)

3 votes, 1.6%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)

3 votes, 1.6%

Bob Dylan

3 votes, 1.6%

Anne Sexton

2 votes, 1.0%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 1.0%

George Sterling (write-in)

2 votes, 1.0%

Edward Lear (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Stephen Vincent Benét

1 vote, 0.5%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Charles Baudelaire (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

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

1 vote, 0.5%

W. H. Auden (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

1 vote, 0.5%

James Whitcomb Riley

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Alfred Noyes

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Frank O'Hara (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

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