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MILLAY | One of Top 5 Authors in 1936

Edna St. Vincent Millay

In 1936, readers of the quarterly for book collectors, The Colophon, picked the authors whose works they believed would be considered classics in the year 2000.

Sinclair Lewis, author of the 1935 hit It Can’t Happen Here, was #1. 

Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, five years earlier. 

Millay (who married Inez Milholland's widower, Eugen Boissevain) ranked #4. 

Here are the top five, in order: Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Eugene O’Neill, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost. 

Sinclair Lewis's 1935 book is being rediscovered today. Reality has caught up with this forecast.

MILLAY POEM | I Shall Forget You (Sonnet XI)

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950

I shall forget you presently, my dear,
So make the most of this, your little day,
Your little month, your little half a year,
Ere I forget, or die, or move away,
And we are done forever; by and by
I shall forget you, as I said, but now,
If you entreat me with your loveliest lie
I will protest you with my favorite vow.
I would indeed that love were longer-lived,
And vows were not so brittle as they are,
But so it is, and nature has contrived
To struggle on without a break thus far,
Whether or not we find what we are seeking
Is idle, biologically speaking.

MILLAY | LINKS to Posts

Edna the Queen Bee of Ragged Island
Edna St. Vincent Millay's birthday (February 22).
Rx for Melancholy - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Millay's Name (Vincent/Edna St. Vincent)

Edna's husband - Eugen Jan Boissevain
What His Wives Saw in Eugen Boissevain
Eugen's first wife - Inez Milholland Boissevain