“The whole world holds in its arms today / The murdered village of Lidice, / Like the murdered body of a little child.”
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.
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culture · American poet (1892–1950) · playwright · poet · translator · librettist · writer · also Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nancy Boyd, Millay
Born 22 February 1892 · Died 19 October 1950 · Q62134
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2026· 3 entries
“The only people I really hate are servants. They are not really human beings at all.”
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Yahoo: Grondahl: Signs of rebirth at Edna St. Vincent Millay's Steepletop
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2025· 1 entry
In the 9th episode of the 2nd season of the TV series Poker Face, Millay's poem "Dirge Without Music" is quoted
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2024· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Edna St. Vincent Millay
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2023· 1 entry
Meryl Streep recited one of her poems, "Recuerdo", in season 3 episode 5 of Only Murders in the Building, as her character Loretta Durkin
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2022· 2 entries
The New York Times: In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Rapture and Melancholy’ Review: Days and Nights With Edna St. Vincent Millay
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2021· 1 entry
Hildegard Publishing released Six Songs on Poems of Edna St
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2019· 1 entry
Not as the poet's birthplace, but as a "good example" of the "modest double houses" that made up almost 10% of residences in the largely working-class city between 1837 and the early 1900s
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2017· 1 entry
Laura Prepon read "Dirge Without Music" in the movie The Hero
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2015· 1 entry
With the purchase of the double-house at 198–200 Broadway, Rockland, Maine
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2014· 1 entry
Untapped Cities: Video Inside the Narrowest House in Manhattan: The Edna St. Vincent Millay House in Greenwich Village
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2012· 1 entry
Libcom: On Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Justice Denied in Massachusettes"
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2002· 1 entry
Called Milford's biography "the story of the life that eclipsed the work," and dismissed much of Millay's work as "soggy" and "doggerel"
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2001· 2 entries
SFGate: A lust for life / Edna St. Vincent Millay's unconventional life and loves unfold in two new biographies
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay
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1995· 1 entry
Ricky Ian Gordon published original sheet music to accompany the lyrics of Millay's poem "Afternoon on a Hill"
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1986· 1 entry
Alice Parker published the musical suite "Songstream", with settings of nine Millay poems for chorus and two pianos
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1978· 1 entry
American composer Ivana Marburger Themmen used Millay's text for her composition Shelter This Candle from the Wind
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1976· 1 entry
Norma continued to run the program until her death in 1986
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1973· 1 entry
Established the Millay Colony for the Arts on seven acres near the house and barn
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1972· 2 entries
Millay's poem "Conscientious Objector" was put to music by Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) on her album Morning Glory
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The song "Bird Song" appeared on Jerry Garcia's album Garcia
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-10-19.
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1949).
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Of lung cancer, leaving Millay to live alone for the last year of her life
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1943· 2 entries
Won Robert Frost Medal (1943).
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Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry
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1942· 1 entry
In The New York Times Magazine, Millay mourned the destruction of the Czech village Lidice
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1941· 1 entry
That she had been "almost a fellow-traveller with the communist idea as far as it went along with the socialist idea
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1936· 1 entry
A fire started after a kerosene heater on the second floor exploded
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1928· 1 entry
At one of her readings at the University of Chicago
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1927· 1 entry
To high praise; The New York Times described it as "the most effectively and artistically wrought American opera that has reached the stage
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1925· 1 entry
Boissevain and Millay bought Steepletop near Austerlitz, New York, which had once been a 635-acre (257 ha) blueberry farm
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1924· 1 entry
Literary critic Harriet Monroe labeled Millay "the greatest woman poet since Sappho
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1923· 3 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1923).
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Millay and others founded the Cherry Lane Theatre "to continue the staging of experimental drama
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“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
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1921· 1 entry
Millay would write The Lamp and the Bell, her first verse drama, at the request of the drama department of Vassar
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1919· 1 entry
Wrote the anti-war play Aria da Capo, which starred her sister Norma Millay at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City
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1918· 1 entry
And Margaret Widdemer in 1919) won special prizes for their poetry prior to the establishment of the award
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1917· 2 entries
The faculty voted to suspend Millay indefinitely; however, in response to a petition by her peers, she was allowed to graduate
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Millay moved to New York City
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1912· 1 entry
When, at the age of 20, she entered her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year
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1904· 1 entry
Cora divorced Millay's father for improvidence and domestic abuse
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-02-22.
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