Sara Teasdale was one of the most popular poets in America from the years of World War I through the 1920s. Her new work, appearing almost monthly in the major national magazines, was read aloud befor...
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In the following excerpt, Untermeyer offers a brief survey of Teasdale's verse.
None of the word-musicians has more completely and melodiously mastered her craft than Sara Teasdale. With the ut...
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In the following essay from her biographical and critical study of Teasdale and her work, Schoen examines Teasdale's most prolific period.
The years between the publication of Rivers to the Sea...
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In the following essay, Walker evaluates the influence of Teasdale's work on other American poets and discusses the most characteristic persona in her verse: the passionate virgin.
If Amy Lowel...
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In the following essay, Larsen explores the work of Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Louise Bogan, asserting that “understanding the value of these poets&#x...
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In the following excerpt, D’Amico determines the influence of Christina's Rossetti's work on Sara Teasdale.
Scholars have given little attention to the topic of Christina Rossetti...
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In the following excerpt, Lucas discusses Teasdale's Flame and Shadow.
‘There is but one thing certain,’ says Pliny, with his curious mixture of matter-of-fact and melancholy, &#x...
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In the following essay, Monroe explores the feminine voice in Teasdale's work.
The typical well-read American girl appears and develops in Sara Teasdale's books—and develops, as s...
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In the following laudatory assessment of Strange Victory, Bogan deems the collection “the final expression of a purely lyrical talent and of a poetic career remarkable for its integrity through...
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In the following review, Deutsch offers a mixed assessment of Teasdale's Collected Poems.
About the time that Masefield was trying to bring the Chaucerian plainness of speech back to English ve...
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In the following essay, Brenner elucidates the defining characteristics of Teasdale's verse.
Out of the happiness, the joy, the sorrow, the “soul's distress and body's pain...
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In the following excerpt, Gregory places Teasdale's work within a literary context.
Within three and four years after the birth of Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) two other poets were born in that mo...
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In the following essay, Saul addresses the lack of critical attention to Teasdale's work, and reflects on the popularity of her work in the early twentieth century.
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To anyone remembering Sara...
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In the following essay, Sprague provides a biographical and critical study of Teasdale and her work.
A lyric poet is always contemporary. He works in the changeless feelings of men, and not in their c...
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Sara Teasdale
Excerpt by Louis Untermeyer
