![]() ![]() ![]() In sure, simple diction a school-girl seems to grasp the harmony of the universe, with a mystical understanding, with an omniscence that embraced all the joy, the pity, and the suffering of life. When in 1912 Edna Millay, then a girl of nineteen, submitted Renascence in a poetry contest, the judges, calmly over-looked it, after the manner of such judges, for a poem whose very title is unknown to day. Vincent Millay seemed an almost perfect example of this belief: her poetry was intimate rather than conventional, emotional rather than intellectual, realistic rather than philosophical, and inconstant to an extreme. ![]() Until she reached the age of thirty-five, Edna St. 1.ĪCCORDING to our convention, a woman feels rather than thinks, and is governed by emotion rather than intellect. Here, we invite you to take a closer look. ![]() Legend has it that the 20-year-old “Vincent,” as she called herself, recited her poem “Renascence” to a rapt audience that night, and the rest of her bohemian life was history. In 1912, she was famously discovered at a party at the Whitehall Inn in Camden, where her sister worked as a waitress. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Maine. ![]()
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