SOURCE: “Four Women of the ‘Twilight Interval’: Reese, Guiney, Crapsey, and Teasdale,” in A History of American Poetry: 1900-1940, edited by Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942, pp. 79-106.

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 most southern of Middle Western cities, St. Louis, Missouri, two poets whose work was so dissimilar to hers that their names can be mentioned only by way of contrast to everything she wrote. These two were Marianne Moore in 1887 and Thomas Stearns Eliot in 1888, and though between their work and Sara Teasdale's there seems more than a generation of advance in technic, subject matter, scope, and reputation, it is sometimes well to recollect that their dates of birth were within a single, and now memorable...