Teasdale, Sara

Teasdale, Sara
orig. Sara Trevor Teasdale

born Aug. 8, 1884, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.
died Jan. 29, 1933, New York, N.Y.

U.S. poet.

While living in St. Louis she made frequent trips to Chicago, where she eventually joined Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine circle. Her collection Rivers to the Sea (1915) established her as a popular poet, and Love Songs (1917) won the first Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Over time her verse became simpler and more austere. After her marriage ended in divorce in 1929, she moved to New York City, where she lived in virtual retirement. Many of the poems in her last book, Strange Victory (1933), foreshadow her suicide.

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▪ American poet
in full  Sara Trevor Teasdale 
born Aug. 8, 1884, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.
died Jan. 29, 1933, New York, N.Y.

      American poet whose short, personal lyrics were noted for their classical simplicity and quiet intensity.

      Teasdale was educated privately and made frequent trips to Chicago, where she eventually became part of Harriet Monroe (Monroe, Harriet)'s Poetry magazine circle. Her first published poem appeared in the St. Louis, Missouri, weekly Reedy's Mirror in May 1907, and later that year she published her first volume of verse, Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems. A second volume, Helen of Troy, and Other Poems, followed in 1911. She married in 1914 (having rejected another suitor, the poet Vachel Lindsay (Lindsay, Vachel)), and in 1915 her third collection of poems, Rivers to the Sea, was published. She moved with her husband to New York City in 1916. In 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for Love Songs (1917). During this time she also edited two anthologies, The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women (1917), and Rainbow Gold for Children (1922).

      Teasdale's poems are consistently classical in style. She wrote technically excellent, pure, openhearted lyrics usually in such conventional verse forms as quatrains or sonnets. Her growth as a poet is nonetheless evident in Flame and Shadow (1920), Dark of the Moon (1926), and Stars To-night (1930). The poems in these collections evince an increasing subtlety and economy of expression. Teasdale's marriage ended in divorce in 1929, and she lived thereafter the life of a semi-invalid. In 1933, in frail health after a recent bout of pneumonia, she took her own life with an overdose of barbiturates. Her last and perhaps finest collection of verse, Strange Victory, was published later that year. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1937.

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