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Edna St. Vincent Millay Selected Works

Discover the works of Edna St. Vincent Millay Poetry and Works

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of the great American poets. She was born in Rockland, Maine, and was raised by her mother, Cora Millay, after her parents divorced in 1900. Her first published poem, "Forest Trees," was published when she was 14; and her first major poem, "Renascence," was published in 1912. Edna St. Vincent Millay would later win the Pulitzer Prize for The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems (1922).
  • Renascence (1917)

  • A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)

  • Aria Da Capo (play in verse (1920)

  • The Lamp and the Bell (play in verse, 1921)

  • Second April (1921)

  • Two Slatterns and a King (play in verse, 1921)

  • The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems (Pulitzer Prize, 1922)

  • Poems (1923)

  • Distressing Dialogues (prose, 1924)

  • The King's Henchman (libretto, music by Deems Taylor, 1927)

  • The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems (1928)

  • Poems Selected for Young People (1929)

  • Fatal Interview (1931)

  • The Princess Marries the Page (play, 1932)

  • Wine from These Grapes (with George Dillon, 1934)

  • Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (translation, 1936)

  • Conversation at Midnight (play, 1937)

  • Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939)

  • Make Bright the Arrows (1940)

  • Invocation to the Muses (1941)

  • Collected Sonnets (1941)

  • The Murder of Lidice (1942)

  • Collected Lyrics (1943)

  • Poem and Prayer for an Invading Army (1944)

  • Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1952)

  • Mine the Harvest (1954)

  • Collected Poems (1956)

  • Take Up the Song (1986)

  • Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (1991)

  • Early Poems (1998)

  • The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (2001)

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