The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Many of us look back with nostalgia to those golden, glamorous years of the nineteen twenties as a period of one of the finest flowerings of American literature and art. Others find in that time of articulate rebellion and independence, exhilarating parallels to the youthful emotions that stir our society today. Of all the glittering personalities of those times, none was more dazzling than its greatest poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and in this searching biography none seems more current and vital in present-day context. Here is a pioneer in poetic expression, a pioneer in free love, a pioneer in social protest.