This loving tribute to the great American poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, combines images of the natural beauty of the poet's upstate New York home, readings from her most famous poems, interviews with sister Norma Millay Ellis, and exclusive archival footage. Capturing the brilliance and passion of Millay's life and art, this in-depth celebration honors the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The subject of the best-selling biography Savage Beauty by Nancy Milford, Millay was the feminine ideal of the jazz age: beautiful, vivactious, sexually liberated and supremely talented. Director Kevin Brownlow (Winstanley, The Tramp and the Dictator) creates a moving tribute to the woman whose quatrain became the joyful hymn of her generation: "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- It gives a lovely light!"