Penitent
Chapter 1 of 12 The Penitent - Read by BD
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1:18
- Running time
- 16 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Brian Dirkx, Cornel Nemes, Eva Davis (d. 2025), Graham Scott, Josh Kibbey and 7 others
Chapters
About this recording
LibriVox volunteers bring you12 recordings of The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5, 2019.
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A saucy little poem about a girl with a guilt free conscience! A very prolific poet and playwright, graduate of Vasser, known for her feminist activism, Edna St. Vincent received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award. (Summary by Michele Fry)
