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Millay, Edna St. Vincent1892-1950Born at Camden, Maine, and educated at Vassar College. Before entering college, however, when she was but nineteen years of age, she wrote the poem, “Renascence”, entered in the prize contest of “The Lyric Year”, a poem showing a remarkable imagination in so young a writer. After leaving college Miss Millay came to New York and became associated with the Provincetown Players for whom she wrote several one-act plays in which she herself acted the leading part. Her plays have also been produced by other companies and have attracted the attention of critics, particularly the poetic drama, “Aria da Capo”, 1920. Miss Millay is one of our most gifted young poets. Her volumes of verse to date are: “Renascence, and Other Poems”, 1917, and “Poems”, 1920.Edna St. Vincent Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver”, &c. — A. L., 1998.]

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