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Flame and Shadow

By Sara Teasdale

2020-01-29 00:53:16

Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. She won the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. Her style and lyricism are well illustra ... Read more
Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. She won the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, Love Songs. Her style and lyricism are well illustrated in her poem, Spring Night (1915), from that collection. She was influenced by the British poet Christina Rossetti. Teasdale was very much a product of her Victorian upbringing and was never able to experience in life the passion that she expressed in her poetry.  Less

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File size33.118 KB
Print pages56
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2018-11-11
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781537480664
Sara Teasdale (Aug 8, 1884 – Jan 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in William Marion Reedy's Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection ...

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