Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Summary
Drawing together several volumes, the award honored Millay's blend of metrical virtuosity with frank explorations of desire, independence, and grief. She moved easily between strict sonnet sequences and supple ballads, letting candid feeling animate inherited form. Her voice gave a generation of women readers a confident, unsentimental lyric idiom.
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Historical Context & Significance
Millay became the first woman to win the "official" prize. She was a symbol of the "flapper" era's social liberation.