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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: 4.15 · 26,618 ratings · 2,053 reviews ·338 distinct works •Similar authors

	Collected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 8,520 ratings — published 1956 — 25 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, Olivia Gatwood(Introduction), Nancy Milford(Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 2,064 ratings — published 1991 — 18 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 — 1,345 ratings — published 1917 — 172 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) 4.34 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 1917	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 by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Diana Secker Tesdell(Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 800 ratings — published 1923 — 33 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 — 672 ratings — published 1920 — 106 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
	SEL POEMS 4.15 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	Second April 4.13 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 1921 — 110 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 4.54 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Early Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Holly Peppe 4.15 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1998 — 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

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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

4145 likes

“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

3237 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

3118 likes

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Polls

Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

56 votes, 9.3%

Edgar Allan Poe

49 votes, 8.2%

Sylvia Plath

31 votes, 5.2%

William Shakespeare

26 votes, 4.3%

Robert Frost

25 votes, 4.2%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

24 votes, 4.0%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

18 votes, 3.0%

William Blake (write-in)

18 votes, 3.0%

Not sure yet (write-in)

18 votes, 3.0%

William Butler Yeats

17 votes, 2.8%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.7%

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

15 votes, 2.5%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

15 votes, 2.5%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

13 votes, 2.2%

Robert frost (write-in)

11 votes, 1.8%

Robert Burns

10 votes, 1.7%

Alfred Tennyson

10 votes, 1.7%

Bob Dylan

10 votes, 1.7%

Franz Kafka (write-in)

10 votes, 1.7%

Jon Keats (write-in)

10 votes, 1.7%

I'm not a fan of poetry

10 votes, 1.7%

Lord Byron (write-in)

10 votes, 1.7%

Christina Rossetti

9 votes, 1.5%

W. H. Auden (write-in)

8 votes, 1.3%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)

8 votes, 1.3%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

7 votes, 1.2%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)

7 votes, 1.2%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

6 votes, 1.0%

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)

6 votes, 1.0%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5 votes, 0.8%

Charles Baudelaire

5 votes, 0.8%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

5 votes, 0.8%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)

5 votes, 0.8%

I don't have one

5 votes, 0.8%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Maya Angelou (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Kendrick Lamar (write-in)

4 votes, 0.7%

Carl Sandburg

3 votes, 0.5%

George Sterling (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Anne Sexton

3 votes, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Paul Celan (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 0.3%

Robert Louis Stevenson

2 votes, 0.3%

Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.3%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Ivan Vazov (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Idea Vilariño (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Lang Leav (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

James Joyce (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

john donne (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

James Whitcomb Riley

1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes

1 vote, 0.2%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)

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)

1 vote, 0.2%

Marin Sorescu (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Philip Larkin (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

JoAnna Novak (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Alejandra Pizarnik (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

William wordsworth (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Mahmoud Darwish (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Big L

0 votes, 0.0%

Sonya Sones

0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya

0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya & Dulce María Loynaz

0 votes, 0.0%

William McGonagall (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Joanna Novab (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Elizabeth Barrett browning (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

600 total votes

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