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Overview

She was her generation’s Madonna and Bob Dylan rolled into one—and yet, by the 1970s, major poetry anthologies no longer mentioned Edna St. Vincent Millay. She had become a lost poet, her literary status mirroring her untimely death. This program documents the brief yet bright “candle” of Millay’s artistic development, from her early years in Maine to her achievements in the literary world of New York, while exploring her celebrity, sexuality, and personal relationships. Among the many eye-opening locations featured in the film is the house in which Millay spent her final years; its contents have remained untouched since the poet’s death and provide a catalyst for the study of her troubled, exuberant life. Never-before-seen archival images and interviews with Millay scholars also enrich the narrative.

  1. Robert A. Duncan

    Director, Writer

Top Billed Cast

  1. Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Herself (Archival Footage)

  2. Robert A. Duncan

    Robert A. Duncan

    Narrator

  3. Jennifer Lines

    Reader

  4. J.D. McClatchy

    Editor, Yale Review

  5. Elizabeth Barnett

    Literary Executor

  6. Nancy Milford

    Biographer: "Savage Beauty"

  7. Daniel Mark Epstein

    Biographer: "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed"

  8. Stephen Young

    Poetry Magazine

  9. Christian Wiman

    Poetry Magazine

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Original Language English

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