Teasdale, Sara

Teasdale, Sara (tēz`dāl), 1884–1933, American poet, b. St. Louis. She wrote several volumes of delicate and highly personal lyrics, including Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911), Rivers to the Sea (1915), Flame and Shadow (1920), and Strange Victory (1933). An extraordinarily sensitive, almost reclusive, woman, Teasdale ended her life by suicide at the age of 48.

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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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Teasdale, (b. Sarah Trevor) Sara (1884–1933) poet; born in St. Louis, Mo. She was educated privately, traveled in Europe and the Middle East (1905–07), married (1914–29), and settled in New York City (1916). Her early poetry, such as Love Songs (1917), was marked by a delicate lyricism, but her later poems, as in Strange Victory (1933), reveal a more intense core. Afflicted with bouts of depression, she committed suicide in New York City.