One of America's most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto
the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for
Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have
thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian
lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the 1920s ceased to shock
them. Millay's refreshing frankness and cynicism and her ardent appetite
for life still burn brightly on the page more than half a century after
her death.
This volume includes the early poems that many consider her best--
"Renascence" and "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" among them--as well as
such often-memorized favorites as "What lips my lips have kissed" and
"First Fig" ("My candle burns at both ends . . ."). The poet's most
famous verse drama, the one-act antiwar fable Aria da Capo, is
included here as well.