Millay asked Harper
to make the printed version a big flat book perhaps 14 by 10 with many colored illustrations . . . . a Christmas gift book and as gaudy as a Christmas tree...
Performance of text
Edna St Vincent Millay
The opera The King's Henchman, with Deems Taylor
's music and ESVM
's libretto, opened at the Metropolitan Opera
in New York
Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House.