Sara Teasdale
American lyric poet whose melodious love poetry won wide popularity. She was the first woman to win the Columbia Poetry Prize (later the Pulitzer) and her verse is noted for its classical clarity.
Works
- Love SongsPoetry collection exploring romantic love, desire, and emotional complexity
- Flame and ShadowLyric poetry examining passion, loss, and the intensity of private emotion
- Rivers to the SeaPoetry collection meditative and musical in quality on love and spiritual yearning
- Strange VictoryLyric collection exploring love's power to transform and ultimately transcend suffering