COLLECTED SONNETS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY de EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY - 1941

NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, 1941 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH LEATHER COVER AND GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS INSCRIPTION INSIDE FRONT, TASSLE ATTACHED, THICK PAGES, WAS REBOUND AND IS TIGHT AND VERY GOOD CONDITION. FOREWARD WRITTEN BY MILLAY WHEN AT STEEPLETOP. WONDERFUL WRITER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE. Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem "Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"; she was the first woman and second person to win the award. In 1943, Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry. Millay was highly regarded during much of her lifetime, with the prominent literary critic Edmund Wilson calling her "one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained to anything like the stature of great literary figures. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.