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Sara Teasdale
Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884, in St. Louis, into an old, established, and devout family. She was home-schooled until she was nine and traveled frequently to Chicago, where she became part of the circle surrounding Poetry magazine and Harriet Monroe. Teasdale published Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems (The Poet Lore Company), her first volume of verse, in 1907. Her second collection, Helen of Troy, and Other Poems (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), followed in 1911, and her third, Rivers to the Sea (Macmillan), in 1915.
In 1914, Teasdale married Ernst Filsinger. She had previously rejected a number of other suitors, including Vachel Lindsay. She moved with her new husband to New York City in 1916. In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize (which became the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the Poetry Society of America’s Prize for Love Songs (Macmillan), which had appeared in 1917. She published three more volumes of poetry during her lifetime: Stars To-night: Verses New and Old for Boys and Girls (Macmillan, 1930); Sara Teasdale was born into a well-to-do family in St. Louis, Missouri. Even as a child, she loved pretty things. In fact, her first word was "pretty." Her three much older siblings doted on their little sister, whom they affectionately called "Sadie," and treated like a princess. She was homeschooled until age ten due to frail health, and lived an extremely sheltered life. She grew up believing she was delicate and helpless, and that perception never left her. It caused her anxiety and made her feel very dependent on others. Yet she was often left alone and had to amuse herself because her siblings were so much older, and she had no peers. Because her family considered her delicate, she was not allowed to run around and play like most children. She was a shy and lonely child. She went to a private girls' school where she made friends and began to write, both poetry and prose. As a young woman, she joined a group of other young women artists in St. Louis who called themselves The Potters and published a
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Sara Teasdale: A Biography
I fell in love with her poems very quickly. I remember reading them in bed at night and reveling in their loveliness and how much I connected with them. Sara writes deceptively simple-looking poems that actually have timeless depth.
Forgetting there were some things I wanted to copy from this biography, I returned it to the library this morning. Oops. So, uh... there was a review on the back that said something about it being "more than just a biography of Sara Teasdale" and it certainly was! It was a biography of the time she lived in, and the people surrounding her. As another reviewer (or was it the same one?) pointed out, it was almost a biography of Vachel Lindsay, as well. Ah, yes - poor Vachel. He was so passionate, so pathe •
Biography of Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933
Biographical Sketch by Leslie Laurio
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