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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

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    Biography of Sara Teasdale, 1884-1933

    Biographical Sketch by Leslie Laurio

    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

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    Teasdale, Sara (1884–1933)

    American writer who was one of the foremost lyric poets in the early decades of the 20th century. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 8, 1884; committed suicide in New York City on January 29, 1933; daughter of John Warren Teasdale (a wealthy businessman) and Mary Elizabeth (Willard) Teasdale; graduated from Hosmer Hall, 1903; married Ernest Filsinger (a St. Louis businessman), on December 19, 1914 (divorced in Reno, Nevada, September 5, 1929; he died in Shanghai, China, May 1937); no children.

    Member of arts group, the Potters (1904–07); traveled to Europe and nära East (1905); published Sonnets to Duse (1907); selected for membership in Poetry Society of amerika in New York (1910); moved to New York City (1916); won Poetry Society of amerika award (June 1917); awarded Columbia Poetry Prize (1918) and Brookes More Prize for poetry (1921).

    Selected works:

    Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems (Boston: Poet Lore, 1907); Helen of Troy and Other P