Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote lyric poetry, sonnets and verse drama about love, desire, independence, mortality and the tensions of modern life. Renascence brought her early recognition, while collections such as A Few Figs from Thistles and Fatal Interview move between witty declarations of sexual freedom and tightly controlled formal verse. Millay often uses traditional rhyme and metre without sounding conventionally restrained in subject. Her poems can be playful, romantic or sharply self-aware. Useful catalogue terms include American lyric poetry, sonnets, feminist literary history and early twentieth-century writing about love and autonomy. Read more Less
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