{"product_id":"the-kings-henchman-a-play-in-three-acts-1","title":"The King's Henchman: A Play in Three Acts","description":"131 pp. Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892  -  October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Encouraged to read the classics at home, she was too rebellious to make a success of formal education, but she won poetry prizes from an early age, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, and went on to use verse as a medium for her feminist activism. She also wrote verse-dramas and a highly-praised opera, The King's Henchman. Her novels appeared under the name Nancy Boyd, and she refused lucrative offers to publish them under her own name. Millay was a prominent social figure of New York City's Greenwich Village just as it was becoming known as a bohemian writer's colony, and she was noted for her uninhibited lifestyle, forming many passing relationships with both men and women. She was also a social and political activist and those relationships included prominent anti-war activists including Floyd Dell, editor of the radical magazine The Masses, and perhaps John Reed. She became a prominent feminist of her time; her poetry and her example, both subversive, inspired a generation of American women. Her career as a poet was meteoric. In 1923 she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize in poetry. She became a performance artist super-star, reading her poetry to rapt audiences across the country. [1] A road accident in middle-age left her a partial invalid and morphine-dependent for years. Yet near the end of her life, she wrote some of her greatest poetry.--Wikipedia","brand":"Harper \u0026 Brothers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39591026851910,"sku":"2317994","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2317994.jpg?v=1636750405","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-kings-henchman-a-play-in-three-acts-1","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}