Edna St. Vincent Millay

A Few Figs from Thistles

Witty, rebellious poems celebrating youthful freedom and rejection of social convention

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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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.

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