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Weaving intellect emotion and irony into unexpected combinations Edna St.Vincent Millay gave voice through her poetry to her postWorld War Igenerations claim to personal freedom and earned a reputation as a sexuallyliberated freethinker who followed her own moral code. Known for herprogressive convictions about womens rights and social equality as well asher freespirited Bohemian lifestyle Millay surrounded herself in the 1920swith other artists and writers in Greenwich Village including Eugene ONeillFloyd Dell Djuna Barnes and Edmund Wilson. Her finely crafted poetry found itsform mainly in traditional rhyming sonnets and lyric pieces but her messagedeclared her independence from convention as in the oftenquoted 1918quatrainMy candle burns at both endsIt will not last the nightBut ah my foes and oh my friends It gives a lovely lightThis edition comprises Millays first three books Renascence Second Apriland A Few Figs as well as a biographical and critical Introduction and indexesboth by title and by first line. «
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