“The poet who chooses this older, more melodic music, and the regular…” — Sara Teasdale

“The poet who chooses this older, more melodic music, and the regular chiming of the rhymes that usually goes with it, should use great care to vary these deftly and spontaneously.”

Counselling subtle variation when working within traditional rhyme and metre · Statement on poetic craft, in Marguerite Wilkinson, New Voices, 1919

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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