At the age of twenty, she entered her poem "Renascence" into a poetry contest for the The Lyric Year, a contest from which 100 poems were to be chosen to be published. Millay enjoyed her free-spirited childhood and adolescence and the creativity that it inspired. She performed in numerous plays and wrote a Halloween play for her classmates to act out. Then, in high school, Millay's interests expanded to include theatre. Edna (who insisted on being called Vincent and who even entered writing contests under that name) and her sisters were encouraged in their literary and musical leanings by their mother. Edna and her two sisters moved, with their mother, to Newburyport, Massachusetts where, to Edna's delight, she was given piano lessons. After that point he held a negligible role in the girl's life. At the young age of seven, Edna's mother asked her husband to leave the family home. An unconventional childhood led into an unconventional adulthood. All of that was in her public life, but her private life was equally interesting. She was also an accomplished playwright and speaker who often toured giving readings of her poetry. Vincent Millay, born in 1892 in Maine, grew to become one of the premier twentieth-century lyric poets.
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