The
Writers
Sara Teasdale
(1884 - 1933 )
Other Links:
 Mt.
Holyoke College
Works Online:
Flame
and Shadow
Helen
of Troy and Other Poems
Love
Songs
Rivers
to the Sea
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Sara Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884 in St. Louis.
She published her first collection of poems Sonnets to Duse and Other
Poems in 1907. Teasdale married Ernst B. Filsinger in 1914.
They divorced 15 years later. She received the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for
Love Songs. Teasdale committed suicide on January 29, 1933 in New
York. Works include: Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911);
The
Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women (1917); Flame
and Shadow
(1920); Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for
Boys and Girls (1922); Dark of the Moon (1926); Stars To-night;
Verses New and Old for Boys and Girls (1930); A Country House
(1932); and Strange Victory (1933). |
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