Bonus Edna St. Vincent Millay Quiz by StevensDN

Question 12

Also published in The Lyric Year was a poem titled “I Shall Not Care” by a writer who later became one of Millay’s Greenwich Village friends; the poem also appeared in the author’s 1915 collection Rivers to the Sea. This poet won the Pulitzer for poetry in 1918 for her collection Love Songs, though Millay soon eclipsed her both in critical reception and in notoriety. Her poems include “There Will Come Soft Rains,” which later inspired a Ray Bradbury short story; “Winter Stars”; and “The Kiss,” and her later collections include Flame and Shadow, Dark of the Moon, and, following her suicide in 1933, Strange Victory.. Name the poet.

SARA TEASDALE

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