Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and died on 19 October 1950 at her home in Austerlitz, New York. During her lifetime she became one of the most visible and commercially successful poets in the United States: a Pulitzer Prize winner, a celebrated public reader, a playwright, a lyricist, a political writer, and an emblem of the modern, sexually independent “New Woman.” Her fame…
“The poet is not a man who says what he thinks, but a man who says what he feels.”
Neighbourhood:
American Poets, Confessional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Political Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Catherine Marthe Louise Pozzi remains one of the most enigmatic and haunting figures in French poetry, a writer who distilled an entire spiritual autobiography into just six extraordinary poems while living a life marked by privilege, passion, illness, and relentless intellectual pursuit. Born on July 13, 1882, into the glittering aristocratic and bourgeois milieu of fin-de-siècle Paris, and dying on December 3, 1934…
“Je ne veux pas être heureuse, je veux être entière.”
Neighbourhood:
French Symbolists, Love Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
