A scandal arose when this poet was defeated by Orrick Johns in a contest held by The Lyric Yeardespite widespread admiration for her submission, whose speaker tells of how "Infinity came downand settled over me" after reaching up to touch the sky. This poet claimed that "heroes seek releasefrom dusty bondage into luminous air" in the Petrarchan sonnet (*) "Euclid alone has looked onBeauty bare." The two-line poem "Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see myshining palace built upon the sand!" is the second entry in a collection by this author. That collection's firstpoem begins "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night." For 10 points, name this author of"Renascence" and A Few Figs From Thistles.
A scandal arose when this poet was defeated by Orrick Johns in a contest held by The Lyric Yeardespite widespread admiration for her submission, whose speaker tells of how "Infinity came downand settled over me" after reaching up to touch the sky. This poet claimed that "heroes seek releasefrom dusty bondage into luminous air" in the Petrarchan sonnet (*) "Euclid alone has looked onBeauty bare." The two-line poem "Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see myshining palace built upon the sand!" is the second entry in a collection by this author. That collection's firstpoem begins "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night." For 10 points, name this author of"Renascence" and A Few Figs From Thistles.
A scandal arose when this poet was defeated by Orrick Johns in a contest held by The Lyric Yeardespite widespread admiration for her submission, whose speaker tells of how "Infinity came downand settled over me" after reaching up to touch the sky.
Edna St. Vincent Millay