“He now walks round and round it, so to speak, looking at it from all…” — Sara Teasdale

“He now walks round and round it, so to speak, looking at it from all sides, trying to see which aspect of it is the most vivid.”

Emphasising patient examination before a poem takes its final direction · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

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Sara Teasdale

About Sara Teasdale

8 August 1884–29 January 1933

Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died there on 29 January 1933. During her lifetime she became one of the best-known American lyric poets of the early twentieth century, admired for verse that appeared effortless: brief, melodious, emotionally direct, and exquisitely shaped. Her…

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