Vincent Millay marks some of the best of the early 20th century. Noted for its lyrical beauty and at times controversial depiction of female sexuality, the poetry of Edna St. Edna would go on to win the highest prize for poetry, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, for her work "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver". Edna would first gain notoriety when her 1912 poem "Renascence" garnered a fourth place prize in a poetry contest for "The Lyric Year". It was here that Edna would write some of her first lines of poetry.
The family would finally settle in a small house on the property of Cora's aunt in Camden, Maine. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town during their upbringing. Vincent Millay's childhood was a life of transient poverty. Goudy, 'maybe 180 or 185 in all' were printed" Merle Johnson, p. Vincent Millay as the greatest lyric poet American has ever produced, and a first edition of Renascence has already sold as high as one hundred and thirty-five dollars, and this little edition is much rarer!" Yost 22: "According to Mr. I think you know that I have always regarded Edna St. We had orders for several hundred copies, which we cannot fill. After printing one hundred and twenty-six copies, Goudy was taken ill and had to give up. Newton found in another copy sold in 1988, Kennerly states to Newton "I am sending you what is already a very rare little book. Copyrighted by Mitchell Kennerley (president of The Anderson Galleries). and Bertha Goudy on the handpress on which William Morris printed the Kelmscott Chaucer, during an exhibition of the Kelmscott Press at The Anderson Galleries in New York in March 1924 initialed and numbered by Frederic W.
Noteworthy in that is was printed by Frederic W. Item #175793 This is the first separate edition of this poem, originally printed and included in a larger volume in 1917. Tall narrow sewn wraps (4.25" x 9*.25") 8vo, original plain pale blue wrappers, sewn as issued, uncut. 126 (some say 180-186) copies printed and signed with the initials of the printer.
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