Product Description
American
lyric poet Sara Trevor Teasdale (1884-1933) was the first woman and the first poet to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for her
1917 collection entitled Love
Songs. Teasdale
was roundly praised for her lyric mastery and romantic subjects. Her
poems most often take on the first person role of their female
narrators and protagonists.
Teasdales
first poem was published in 1907. Later that year she published her
first collection of poems, Sonnets
to Duse and Other Poems,
written mainly for the Italian actress Eleonora Duse. In 1911 her
second collection Helen
of Troy and Other Poems received
high praise from critics. Her third collection, Rivers
to the Sea
from 1915 was and remains a best seller and has been reprinted
several times. The three poems used here, Joy,
The Answer, and
.To
Joy
all date from 1915. These three poems were
also included in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Love
Songs.
Teasdale
was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 8, 1884. She was a sickly
child, so much so that she was home schooled. As a young woman she
had many suitors, including the poet Vachel Lindsay, who thought he
could never provide for her. She eventually married businessman
Ernst Filsinger, a great admirer of her poems. The couple relocated
to New York City.
Filsingers
constant business travel left Teasdale very lonely and depressed.
She eventually relocated to another state so she could quickly
divorce him. Filsinger was shocked. Teasdale took up again with
Vachel Lindsay, who has himself married and had children. Lindsay
committed suicide in 1931 and Teasdale followed likewise two years
later. She is interred at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
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