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Born in February 22, 1892 / Died in October 19, 1950 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Andrews, Betty, No Wider than the Heart: A Play in Two Acts: Based on the Life and Work of the Poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dramatic Publications, 1994.
  • Atkins, Elizabeth, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Times, University of Chicago Press, 1936.
  • Beach, Joseph Warren, Obsessive Images: Symbolism in Poetry of the 1930s and 1940s, University of Minnesota Press, 1960.
  • Bogan, Louise, Achievement in American Poetry: 1900-1950, Regnery, 1951.
  • Brittin, Norman A., Edna St. Vincent Millay, Twayne, 1967, revised edition, G. K. Hall, 1982.
  • Butcher, Fanny, Many Lives: One Love, Harper, 1972.
  • Bynner, Witter, The Works of Witter Bynner: Selected Letters, edited by James Kraft, Farrar, Straus, 1981.
  • Collins, Joseph P., Taking the Literary Pulse, Doran, 1924.
  • Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography: The Twenties, 1917-1929, Gale, 1989.
  • Cowley, Malcolm, editor, After the Genteel Tradition: American Writers Since 1910, Norton, 1937.
  • Dash, Joan, A Life of One's Own: Three Gifted Women and the Men They Married, Harper, 1973.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 45: American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series, Gale, 1986.
  • Eastman, Max, Great Companions: Critical Memoirs of Some Famous Friends, Farrar, Straus, 1959.
  • Epstein, Daniel Mark, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Holt, 2001.
  • Freedman, Diane P., Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal, Southern Illinois University, 1995.
  • Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar, editors, Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, Indiana University Press, 1979.
  • Gould, Jean, The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dodd, Mead, 1969.
  • Gurko, Miriam, Restless Spirit: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Crowell, 1962.
  • Hahn, Emily, Romantic Rebels: An Informal History of Bohemianism in America, Houghton, 1966.
  • Kessler-Harris, Alice, and William McBrien, editors, Faith of a (Woman) Writer, Greenwood Press, 1988.
  • King, Grace Hamilton, The Development of the Social Consciousness of Edna St. Vincent Millay As Manifested in Her Poetry (dissertation), [New York University], 1943.
  • Kreymborg, Alfred, Our Singing Strength, Coward, McCann, 1929.
  • Madeleva, Sister M., Chaucer's Nuns and Other Essays, Appleton, 1925.
  • McGill, Ralph, The South and the Southerner, Little, Brown, 1963.
  • Milford, Nancy, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Random House, 2001.
  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent, A Few Figs From Thistles: Poems and Sonnets, F. Shay, 1921.
  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent, The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems, Harper, 1923.
  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent,Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, edited by Allan Ross MacDougall, Harper, 1952.
  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent, Second April, M. Kennerley, 1921.
  • Minot, Walter, S., Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Critical Revaluation (dissertation), [University of Nebraska], 1972.
  • Nierman, Judith, Edna St. Vincent Millay: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall, 1977.
  • Ostriker, Alicia Suskin, Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America, Beacon Press, 1986.
  • Poetry Criticism, Volume 6, Gale, 1993.
  • Quinn, Arthur Hobson, A History of American Drama From the Civil War to the Present Day, Volume 2, revised edition, Crofts, 1937.
  • Sheehan, Vincent, The Indigo Bunting: A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Harper, 1951.
  • Thompson, Dorothy, The Courage to Be Happy, Houghton, 1957.
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 4, 1981, Volume 49, 1993.
  • Untermeyer, Louis, American Poetry Since 1900, Harcourt, 1923.
  • Van Doren, Carl, Many Minds, Knopf, 1924.
  • Wilson, Edmund, The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties, Farrar, Straus, 1952.
  • Yost, Karl, A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay, with an essay in appreciation by Harold Lewis Cook, Harper, 1937.

PERIODICALS

  • Book Review, January, 1924.
  • Colby Library Quarterly, March, 1979.
  • Greenwich Villager, August 3, 1921.
  • Literary Digest, June 9, 1923.
  • Mark Twain Journal, spring, 1964.
  • Measure, April, 1924.
  • Modern American Poetry, October 13, 1928.
  • Morning Post, (London), November 10, 1931.
  • Nation, October 26, 1921, November 14, 1934.
  • New England Quarterly, June, 1975.
  • New Republic, December 10, 1924, May 6, 1931.
  • New Yorker, February 19, 1927.
  • New York Herald Tribune Books, February 20, 1927, November 11, 1934.
  • New York Times, December 14, 1919.
  • Outlook, November 9, 1927.
  • Outlook and Independent, April 29, 1931.
  • Pictorial Review, November, 1931.
  • Poetry, August, 1924, April, 1927, February, 1935, October, 1939, March, 1944.
  • Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, summer, 1931.
  • School Library Journal, October, 1991, p. 157, July, 1994, p. 61.
  • Saturday Review of Literature, November 10, 1934.
  • Sewanee Review, January-March, 1930.
  • Southwest Review, January, 1935.
  • Times Literary Supplement, August 21, 1992.

OBITUARIES

  • Life, October 30, 1950.
  • Nation, December 20, 1950.
  • New York Times, October 20, 1950.
  • Saturday Evening Post, November 25, 1950.
  • Time, October 30, 1950.