Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay

The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Endlessly intriguing and illuminating. The publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's diaries is a major literary event, providing astonishing insight into the great poet’s art and life.”—Chloe Honum, author of The Tulip-Flame

The English author Thomas Hardy proclaimed that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper, a...