Second April - 9781534946088

Second April - Edna St. Vincent Millay.... Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." Millay wrote five verse dramas early in her career, including Two Slatterns and a King and The Lamp and the Bell, a poem written for Vassar College about love between women. She was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera House to write a libretto for an opera composed by Deems Taylor. The result, The King's Henchman, drew on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's account of Eadgar, King of Wessex, and was described as the most effectively and artistically wrought American opera ever to reach the stage. Within three weeks, her publishers had run through four editions of the book.

• • Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jun 27, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 72 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 153494608X
• • ISBN-13: 9781534946088