As usual, Millay writes often here of death. In the title poem death, which claims the buck for the sake of his antlers, is set against Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edna St Vincent Millay
Though he identified as Dutch, his mother was Irish and his father's family originally French. Millay deeply admired his first wife, Inez Milholland
(a Vassar
graduate, a lawyer, and a socialist, who died in 1916...