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Renascence and Other Poems

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

2020-01-27 20:15:53

"Renascence" (also "Renasance") is a 1912 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, credited with introducing her to the wider world, and often considered one of her finest poems. The poem is a 200+ line lyric poem, written in the first person, broadly enc ... Read more
"Renascence" (also "Renasance") is a 1912 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, credited with introducing her to the wider world, and often considered one of her finest poems. The poem is a 200+ line lyric poem, written in the first person, broadly encompassing the relationship of an individual to humanity and nature. The narrator is contemplating a vista from a mountaintop. Overwhelmed by nature, and thoughts of human suffering, the narrator empathetically feels the deaths of others and feels pressed into a grave. Friendly rain brings the narrator back to joy in life—the rebirth, or "renascence", of the title. Less

Book Details

File size29.13 KB
Print pages64
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2011-11-30
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780486268736
Edna St. Vincent Millay (Feb 22, 1892 – Oct 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a prominent social figure of New York City's Greenwich Village just as it was becoming k...

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