Edna St. Vincent Millay — a remark

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“The poet is not a man who says what he thinks, but a man who says what he feels.”

Emphasising emotional truth as central to poetic expression · Essay

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

22 February 1892–19 October 1950

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…

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