St. Vincent

Treasury of 23 works by American poet renowned for the lyric beauty of her early works. In addition to the title poem, this collection includes "Interim," "Sorrow," "Ashes of Life," "Three Songs of Shattering," "The Dream," "When the Year Grows Old," and others, including 6 sonnets. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

Deep in Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains, a woman befriends a mysterious newcomer from Uzbekistan, setting in motion this suspenseful, atmospheric, politically charged debut. After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at twenty-two, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a state park, where she works flipping burgers for deer hunters and hikers-happy, she insists, to be left alone. But when a stranger appears in the dead of winter-seemingly...

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892—1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebrated poets in American history, Millay is hailed as the twentieth century's most skillful sonnet writers who expertly married modern attitudes with traditional forms of expression. "The Lamp and the Bell" is a fairy tale drama in five acts written by Millay for a student production at Vassar College, New...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Edna St. Vincent Millay: ARIA DA CAPO; A Few Figs from Thistles; The Lamp and the Bell; Renascence and Other Poems; Second April.