Literature

Literature

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. Her parents were Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher, and Cora Lounella, a nurse. Her parents divorced when she was about eight, her mother, Cora, raised her three daughters on her own after asking her husband to leave the family home in 1899. Cora encouraged her girls to be ambitious and self-sufficient, teaching them an appreciation of music and literature from an early age.

Millay may be best known for her lyrical poetry. She wrote many poems in traditional sonnet form, on topics such as love, fidelity, erotic desire, and ...