Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) Love Is Not All LINKS Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/e_millay.html This page on Millay includes a brief biography and several of her works online, collected at a site devoted to lesbian poetry. BIOGRAPHY Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) Millay was born in Maine and educated at Vassar. By the time she graduated in 1917, she had already achieved considerable fame as a poet; in the same year, she moved to Greenwich Village in New York and published her first volume of poetry, Renascence and Other Poems. In Greenwich Village, she established her reputation as a poet and became notorious for her bohemian life and passionate love affairs. In 1923 she received a Pulitzer Prize for a collection of sonnets, The Harp-Weaver, that dealt wittily and flippantly with love. Her later works exhibit a more subdued and contemplative tone as well as a growing preoccupation with social and political affairs. Nevertheless, her best and most memorable verse deals with the bittersweet emotions of love and the brevity of life.