SOURCE: “Women and Selfhood: Sara Teasdale and the Passionate Virgin Persona,” in Masks Outrageous and Austere, Indiana University Press, 1991, pp. 44-66.
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.
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