Edna St Vincent Millay Collected Works

Collected Works

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Since Millay’s death in 1950, many editions of her poetry and several biographies have been published. The Millay Society recommends the following introductions to her life and work:

New since 2016:

Timothy Jackson, editor, Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2016), with an Introduction by Holly Peppe

Krystyna Poray Goddu, A Girl Called Vincent (Chicago Review Press, 2016)

Jerri Dell, Blood Too Bright; Floyd Dell Remembers Edna St. Vincent Millay (Glenmere Press, 2017)

Earlier works:

Norma Millay, editor, Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper Perennial, 2011); P.S. section including personal photos, letters and critical essay by Holly Peppe.
Elizabeth Barnett, editor, Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper & Row, 1988)
Colin Falck, editor, Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1991; UK edition, 1992)
Holly Peppe, editor, Edna St. Vincent Millay: Early Poems (Penguin Books, 1998)
J.D. McClatchy, editor, Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems (American Poets Project, 7: Library of America, 2003)
Daniel Mark Epstein, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Henry Holt & Company, 2001)
Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Random House, 2001)
Marion Meade, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Doubleday, 2004)
Vincent Sheehan, The Indigo Bunting: A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper & Brothers, 1951)
Jean Gould, The Poet and Her Book: A Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969)
Allan Ross Macdougall, editor, Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper, 1952)

The Society's mission is to illuminate the life and writings of Edna St. Vincent Millay and to preserve and interpret the character of Steepletop, her home and gardens, places where nature inspires the creative spirit.