Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 – 1950
Background – Biographical Information & Connection to Maine (3)
Biography of a Poet ~ The Millay House Rockland (4)
Millay in Camden, Maine in 1912 at age 20 (5)
Insightful Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay from her Alma Mater Vassar College (6)
Visual Text: The poet and her library of 3,000 books in her farmhouse in New York (7, 8 & 9)
Virtual Visit: Click here to visit the rooms of the Millay House where Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine (10)
Click here to read The Story of Edna St. Vincent Millay: Poet, Revolutionary, and Jazz-Age Bohemian (11)
Virtual Visit: Click here to visit Millay’s beloved farmhouse Steepletop and gardens in New York where she lived for over 20 years and died in 1950 (12)
Edna St. Vincent Millay in her garden in New York (13)
Listen to Edna St. Vincent Millay Reciting her Poetry (14)
Click here to read Millay’s poetry at PoetryFoundation.org
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Writings
Click above to read this article in Vanity Fair Millay wrote using the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. (31)
Click above to read this article in Vanity Fair Millay wrote using the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. (32)
Click above to read this article in Vanity Fair Millay wrote using the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. (33)
Reading: The poem that made Millay famous in 1912 at 20 years of age (Renascence) (15)
The inspiration for Renascence was the views from the Camden Hills in Camden, Maine (16)
The inspiring view from Mt. Battie in Camden (17)
Edna St. Vincent Millay Plaque on Mt. Battie (18)
Reading: The poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver for which Millay won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 (19)
Click here to read about the Pulitzer Prize (20)
Click here to read a sampling of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems from an extensive list, including these loved poems: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why (#1), First Fig (#4), I Know I am but Summer to Your Heart (#16), Spring (#32) and God’s World (#34) (21)
Original Obituary in the Green Bay Press-Gazette 1950 (22)
Reprint of Obituary in the New York Times 1950 (23)
Find-a-Grave and Cemetery Record (24)
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s gravesite in New York (25)
If you’d like more to explore…
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Inspiration for the Spirit (including how Millay met her husband) (26)
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Ragged Island in Maine where she summered from 1933-1950 (27)
Edna St. Vincent Millay Fan Page (29)
Edna St. Vincent Millay Postage Stamp (30)
Photo Credits and Sources from top to bottom of page:
1. Portrait of Edna St. Vincent Millay: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149966.Early_Poems
2. https://quotefancy.com/quote/1001421/Edna-St-Vincent-Millay-Pour-away-despair-and-rinse-the-cup-Eat-happiness-like-bread
3. Hart, Paula L. “Edna St. Vincent Millay.” DISCovering Authors, Gale, 2003. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2101205893/GPS?u=brun84057&sid=GPS&xid=d47bde7f. Accessed 7 May 2021.
4. https://millayhouserockland.org/vincent-biography
5. https://freepressonline.com/Content/Top-Scrolling-Area/Top-Scrolling-Area/Article/Edna-St-Vincent-Millay-Waylaid-by-Beauty/126/724/44717
6. http://vcencyclopedia.vassar.edu/alumni/edna-st-vincent-millay.html
7. https://amandafrench.net/2014/09/25/on-some-books-in-edna-st-vincent-millays-library/
8. https://stories.vassar.edu/2017/170202-millay-at-steepletop.html
9. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Edna-St-Vincent-Millay-s-home-opens-to-public-559829.php#photo-239261
10. https://millayhouserockland.org/about
11. https://hvmag.com/things-to-do/arts-culture/the-story-of-edna-st-vincent-millay-poet-revolutionary-and-jazz-age-bohemian/
12. https://housecrazysarah.life/steepletop-the-edna-st-vincent-millay-house/
13. https://acecampstravel.com/the-ace-camp-journal/about-poets
14. http://www.millay.org/poetryarchives.php
15. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55993/renascence
16. https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/kristen-lindquist-millay-and-mount-battie/131528
17. https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/kristen-lindquist-millay-and-mount-battie/131528
18. https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/edna-st-vincent-millay-plaque
19. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53241/the-ballad-of-the-harp-weaver
20. https://www.pulitzer.org/
21. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/edna_st__vincent_millay/poems
22. http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/bhslibrary/files/2020/04/Millay-Obituary-1.pdf
23. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0222.html
24. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/713/edna-st_vincent-millay
25. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Edna-St-Vincent-Millay-s-home-opens-to-public-559829.php
26. http://www.inspirationforthespirit.com/poetry/classic-poets/edna-st-vincent-millay/
27. https://downeast.com/archives/edna-st-vincent-millay-archives/
28. http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/ch-d-e/Edna%20St.%20Vincent%20Millay.html
29. https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay
30. http://postcardy.blogspot.com/2014/03/edna-st-vincent-millay-stamp.html
31. Powder, Rouge and Lip-Stick – Millay writing as Nancy Boyd in Vanity Fair, September, 1921.
32. Rolls and Salt – Millay writing as Nancy Boyd in Vanity Fair, January, 1921.
33. Breakfast in Bed – Millay writing as Nancy Boyd in Vanity Fair, May, 1921.
