num_pages: 377
description: Here is the authoritative and first full-length autobiography or Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), one of America's most beloved and most gifted lyric poets. This is a volume that every lover of poetry and all who are interested in the American literacy scene will want to add to their libraries.Here, for the first time, is the full and moving story of Vachel Lindsay's love for Sara Teasdale, revealed in excerpts, never before published, from his tender and compelling letters to her.Here, too, are details of her association with other well-known personalities in the poetry world who played their parts in her life, among them John Hall Wheelcock, Orrick Johns, Harriet Monroe, Eunice Tietjens, Jessie Rittenhouse, William Marion Reedy, John Myers O'Hara, and Witter Bynner.Included in the important source materials are a fascinating picture of the "Potters," the group of artistic young girls to which Sara Teasdale belonged in her youth in St. Louis--a group that did much to give outlet to her developing talent; excerpts from her diary that she kept on her first youthfully enthusiastic trip abroad; and quotations from the unpublished biography of Christina Rossetti that Miss Teasdale was writing at the time of her death.Miss Carpenter's biography of Sara Teasdale traces the story of the poet's growth from her childhood in St. Louis at the turn of the century through her youth, her early nation-wide recognition as an outstanding poet, her marriage to Ernst Filsinger and her years in New York, and, finally, her tragic death at forty-eight.The author has worked closely with relatives and friends of Miss Teasdale, and with her editor and associates in the literary world, to put together a perceptive interpretation not only of the poet and her work, but of the woman whose sensitivity and reticence led one close friend to call her "the delectable enigma."
language: English
title: Sara Teasdale: A Biography
titlecomplete: Sara Teasdale: A Biography
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Pentalic Pr