By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was a poet, playwright, and feminist, who enjoyed considerable success during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. As A. Mary Murphy notes in The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, Millay’s poetry books sold in the sorts of numbers we usually associate with fiction rather than poetry.