![]() ![]() In 1923 her third volume of poetry won the first Pulitzer Prize attained by a woman poet” (Library of Congress). Though her style remained largely traditional, romantic, and lyrical, her free spirit spoke for modernism in the arts during the Jazz Age. “Between 19 she became a celebrity in bohemian Greenwich Village and by 1920 was known as the voice of her generation- full of freshness, gaiety, and implied rebellion. ![]() When a Young Women’s Christian Association education officer heard Millay read this poem, she helped obtain a scholarship for the talented girl to attend Vassar College” (ANB). Millay’s “first great poem, ‘Renascence,’ was published in an anthology called The Lyric Year in 1912. Slim octavo, original black cloth.įirst edition of Millay’s scarce first book of poetry, signed by the author. “FOR MY OMNISCIENCE PAID I TOLL IN INFINITE REMORSE OF SOUL”: FIRST EDITION OF RENASCENCE, SIGNED BY EDNA ST. ![]()
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