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The Individual and Society
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The Individual and Society

by Department Delhi Department of English University of Delhi
August 2005
Beginner
264 pages
5h 8m
English
Pearson India
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Conscientious Objector

Edna St Vincent Millay

Edna St Vincent Millay was born in 1882. Considered the most famous poet of the Jazz Age, and known for her bohemian lifestyle, she was an accomplished playwright and speaker who toured often to give readings of her poetry. She studied at Vassar College and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her collection The Harp Weaver and Other Poems. Having seen World War I, Millay published poems in the interwar years with a political aim: raising American consciousness of the magnitude and implication ofwar. The Buck in the Snow (1928) and Wine from These Grapes (1934) contain many of her anti-war poems. Millay died in 1950.

‘Conscientious Objector’ was written in 1917 during World War I, and was ...

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