Knowra Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) was an American lyric poet known for musical verse about love, nature, and solitude. Her collection Love Songs won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Lyric poetry : Poetry that presents personal thoughts or feelings, often in a musical or songlike voice. Teasdale’s concise, songlike poems belong to this tradition.
Vachel Lindsay : An American poet known for performance-oriented verse and rhythmic experimentation. Lindsay was Teasdale’s friend and briefly her husband.
St. Louis : A major Missouri city on the Mississippi River. Teasdale was born and raised in St. Louis, whose literary community shaped her early career.
Nature poetry : Poetry that makes the natural world a central subject, image system, or source of meaning. Birds, seasons, and landscapes recur as measures of feeling in Teasdale’s poems.
Love Songs : Sara Teasdale’s 1917 poetry collection, which won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. This collection brought her Pulitzer recognition and gathers many of her love poems.
Edgar Lee Masters : An American poet and novelist best known for the 1915 collection Spoon River Anthology . Masters belonged to Teasdale’s St. Louis literary circle.
The Saturday Review of Literature : An American literary magazine published from 1924 to 1986. It published Teasdale’s first poem when she was a teenager.
War poetry : Poetry that addresses the experience, causes, or consequences of armed conflict. Her poem “There Will Come Soft Rains” imagines nature indifferent to human war.
There Will Come Soft Rains : A Sara Teasdale poem in which nature continues after humanity’s destruction by war. Its calm natural imagery gives her lyric voice an unusually stark antiwar dimension.
Amy Lowell : An American poet who promoted modernist experimentation and the Imagist movement. Lowell’s modernist poetics offer a contemporary contrast to Teasdale’s traditional lyric forms.
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