Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) was an American poet born, like fellow American poet, four years her junior, T.S. Eliot, in St. Louis, MO. Unlike Eliot, she wrote traditional and formally structured ...

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) is the kind of poet who grows on the reader the more she is read. A native of St. Louis, she lived much of her adult life in New York before her suicide at age 49. From her ...

Assiduous readers of our Poem of the Day feature will, by now, have made more than a passing acquaintance with the poems of Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). In a brief career, cut even shorter by her ...

Sara Teasdale was one of the few American women poets who aroused not the slightest "anxiety of influence" in the ambitious young Sylvia Plath. In one of her letters home, Plath congratulated ...