Edna St. Vincent Millay
American lyric poet and playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 and became one of the first women to be a major public literary figure. Her sonnets combine formal mastery with feminist independence.
Works
- Renascence and Other PoemsPoetry collection of spiritual awakening, growth, and philosophical questioning
- A Few Figs from ThistlesWitty, rebellious poems celebrating youthful freedom and rejection of social convention
- The Harp-Weaver and Other PoemsPulitzer Prize-winning collection exploring love, loss, and the human condition
- Fatal InterviewSonnet sequence exploring passion, desire, and the agony of romantic love