Edna St. Vincent Millay, Part 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was one of the Guggenheim Foundation's judges for its poetry fellowships. And she managed to make a great deal of money as a poet in the middle of the Great Depression. R

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.
0:43.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:45.7	I'm Tracey V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:48.7	And today we are concluding our two-part episode on the renowned poet,
0:53.7	Edna St. Vincent Malay.
0:55.7	She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
0:58.7	She was one of the Guggenheim Foundation's judges for its poetry fellowships.
1:03.7	And she was also wildly best-selling.
1:06.7	She managed to sell tens of thousands of copies of her poetry
1:10.7	and make huge amounts of money off of it in the middle of the Great Depression,
1:14.7	which seems like a hard thing to do.
1:17.7	Her work was so popular that every new book that she published
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