Sara Teasdale

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Who is Sara Teasdale? Can you send me an example of one of her poems? Can you gice me a web site on information about her? Can you get this to me soon? Thank you.

-- Molly McKenney (mly2sport1@aol.com), April 17, 1999

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Sara Teasdale

Born in St. Louis on August 8, 1884.

She graduated from Hosmer Hall in 1903.

Her first published poem appeared in the St. Louis weekly +Reedy's Mirror; in May 1907.

In 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for +Love Songs;, 1917.

Her marriage ended in divorce in 1929, and she lived thereafter the life of a semi-invalid. . poems at :

http:// mallflorida.com/begora/poetry_by_sara_teasdale.htm

-- ilza (ilza@pobox.com), April 17, 1999.


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