The Early Poetry Of Edna St Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maryland on February 22nd 1892. Whilst still a child her parents had separated and finally divorced in 1904. Edna and her two sisters and mother Cora found times hard and apart from a trunk full of classic literature were living in poverty. However they were able to settle in a small house on her Mother’s Aunt’s property in Camden in Maine. It was here that Edna (who had a fondness to call herself Vincent) was to begin writing poetry. Despite her reb