Edna St Vincent Millay Poetry Reading by Shanid.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)*
Born Edna St. Vincent Millay in Rockland, Maine, USA. Named St.Vincent after the hospital that saved her uncle's life. Raised in unconventional and often poverty stricken family unit; her parents divorced in 1904. Educated at Camden High School and Vassar College, New York (1913). Millay's literary 'fame' began in 1912 when she was placed fourth in a competition that many neutral judges felt that she should have won. The publicity that this 'scandal' garnered generated a benefactor that paid for Millay to attend Vasser College. After university, Millay moved to New York in 1917 to be a writer; her unconventional lifestyle quickly gained her notoriety as it ran counter to the staid gender expectations of the age. Married Eugen Jan Boissevain in 1923. While she won multiple awards for her poetry, including the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, it was her frank exploration of female sexuality that made her one of the most famous women in America. Moved to large, isolated farm in Upstate New York in 1925. Wrote a very successful opera, 'The King's Henchman' in 1925. Never fully recovered from injuries sustained in car accident in 1936. Died in 1950 in New York, USA. Millay is one of America's great poets.
Further reading:
Collected Poems Edna St Vincent Millay (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
The Essential Edna St Vincent Millay Poetry collection (Createspace)

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