Miss Millay’s first poem, “Renascence,” was published in The Lyric Year, 1912.
Suggestions for Reading
1. The poems need to be read aloud to give the full effect of their passion and lyric beauty.
2. Compare Miss Millay’s naïveté with that of Blake. Do you find suggestions of philosophy behind it or sheer emotion?
3. Does Miss Millay’s later work show growth toward greatness or toward sophisticated cleverness?
Bibliography
- Renascence and other Poems. 1917.
- A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Four Sonnets. 1920.
- Aria da Capo. 1920. (Play; published in The Monthly Chapbook, 1920.)
- Second April. 1921.
- The Lamp and the Bell. 1921. (Play.)
Studies and Reviews
- Untermeyer.
- Freeman, 1 (’20): 307; 4 (’21): 189.
- Poetry, 13 (’18): 167; 19 (’21): 151.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1918, 1921.