Millay grew up in Maine and graduated from Vassar College, where her reputation as a gifted poet flourished.
Modernists in the 1930s dismissed her work, but her prescient embrace of feminist ideology sparked a posthumous surge in popularity in the 1960s and ‘70s. Millay grew up in Maine and graduated from Vassar College, where her reputation as a gifted poet flourished. She was openly bisexual in an era where that was unheard of, and she wrote plays as well as poetry. Some of her most famous poems include “Renascence,” “First Fig" (including the famous line “My candle burns at both ends”) and "Spring." You can read Edna St. Vincent Millay’s work in the book The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay, available from publisher Penguin Random House.