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Rivers to the Sea
Sara Teasdale
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R839
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This sizable anthology contains the finest poems of Sara Teasdale,
one of America's best-loved poets and lyricists, combined from a
total of five earlier collections. A poorly child, the young Sara
was taught at home in St. Louis, Missouri, until she was aged nine
and deemed well enough to be educated in school. An introvert, her
childhood home and quarters were designed to ensure privacy and
solitude. By the time she was in her mid-teens, Sara had
demonstrated an affinity for English verse and soon began to write
her earliest poems. The five collections which comprise this
anthology were published between 1907 and 1920; these were the
years in which Sara Teasdale, as a young woman brimming with
creative talent, authored her finest works. She won prizes for her
poetry, and had soon gained national renown with her collections
proving to be popular and much-endeared to the American public.
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Flame and Shadow (Paperback)
Sara Teasdale; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R229
R189
Discovery Miles 1 890
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Flame and Shadow (1920) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.
The poet's fifth collection, published two years after she won the
1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems
meditating on life, death, and the natural world. Somber and
celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Flame and Shadow
revels in the mystery of existence itself. "What do I care, in the
dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at
all?" Content to depict the rhythms of nature, the songs of birds,
and "the silver light after a storm," Teasdale's poetry dissolves
the poet's ego in order to access a deeper well of creative energy:
"For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, / It is my
heart that makes my songs, not I." In "There Will Come Soft Rains,"
a poem born from a decade of war and widespread disease, Teasdale
imagines a posthuman world where beauty and harmony continue
despite our disappearance: "Robins will wear their feathery fire /
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of
the war..." For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection
for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs,
the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's Flame and Shadow is a
classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.
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Love Songs (Paperback)
Sara Teasdale; Contributions by Mint Editions
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R194
R160
Discovery Miles 1 600
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Love Songs (1917) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The
poet's fourth collection, for which she was awarded the 1918
Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating
on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory,
symbolic and grounded in experience, Love Songs revels in the
mystery of existence itself. From despair to elation, confusion to
security, Sara Teasdale captures the many emotions at work in the
hearts of lovers. In "November," she explores the strange feeling
that accompany a relationship nearing a mutual ending: "The world
is tired, the year is old, / The fading leaves are glad to die, /
The wind goes shivering with cold / Where the brown reeds are dry."
Beginning her brief verse with an observation of autumn, Teasdale
moves into a bittersweet stanza on love grown stagnant, mirroring
the world approaching winter: "Our love is dying like the grass, /
And we who kissed grow coldly kind, / Half glad to see our old love
pass / Like leaves along the wind." So far from spring, the only
thing certain is that these lovers must part ways. Refusing to
romanticize love, to portray it as wholly positive or negative, the
poet crafts a timeless collection on a timeless theme. For
Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and
fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in
the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Sara Teasdale's Love Songs is a classic work of
American poetry reimagined for modern readers.
Rivers to the Sea (1915) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.
The poet's third collection, published several years before she was
awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric
poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber
and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Rivers to the
Sea revels in the mystery of existence itself. "The park is filled
with night and fog, / The veils are drawn about the world, / The
drowsy lights along the paths / Are dim and pearled." "Spring
Night," the collection's opening poem, begins in quiet reverie, its
speaker appreciating the beauty and mystery of a silent world while
suffering from heartache and uncertainty: "Oh, is it not enough to
be / Here with this beauty over me? / My throat should ache with
praise, and I / Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. / Oh, beauty
are you not enough?" A lyric poet to her core, Teasdale explores
the highs and lows of love in her own life and in the lives of
strangers. Personal and communal, public and private, her work is a
testament to a life spent in observance. For Teasdale, a poet who
merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical
distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world,
with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara
Teasdale's Rivers to the Sea is a classic work of American poetry
reimagined for modern readers.
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911) is a poetry collection by Sara
Teasdale. The poet's second collection, published several years
before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful
collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the
natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in
experience, Helen of Troy and Other Poems revels in the mystery of
existence itself. "Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn /
The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. / This is the funeral
pyre and Troy is dead / That sparkled so the day I saw it first, /
And darkened slowly after. I am she / Who loves all beauty-yet I
wither it." As Troy burns, Teasdale imagines an impassioned
monologue given from the ramparts by the infamous Helen, whose
faithlessness in marriage was the catalyst for war in Homer's
Iliad. Although she is often seen as a minor character, more an
object of male desire than an autonomous subject in her own right,
Teasdale refuses to follow the template passed down by generations
of poets-mostly men. Her Helen is meditative and intelligent,
capable of immense sorrow and full-throated rage alike: "Men's
lives shall waste with longing after me, / For I shall be the sum
of their desire, / The whole of beauty, never seen again." While
acknowledging her role in Troy's destruction, Helen is a tragic
figure in Teasdale's poem, a woman who never asked for beauty, let
alone for the troubles that beauty brought down on the world.
Containing monologue poems from such figures as Sappho, Beatrice,
and Guenevere, alongside a series of love poems and finely-crafted
sonnets, Helen of Troy and Other Poems is a brilliant collection by
a gifted American poet. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's
Helen of Troy and Other Poems is a classic work of American poetry
reimagined for modern readers.
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911) is a poetry collection by Sara
Teasdale. The poet's second collection, published several years
before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful
collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the
natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in
experience, Helen of Troy and Other Poems revels in the mystery of
existence itself. "Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn /
The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. / This is the funeral
pyre and Troy is dead / That sparkled so the day I saw it first, /
And darkened slowly after. I am she / Who loves all beauty-yet I
wither it." As Troy burns, Teasdale imagines an impassioned
monologue given from the ramparts by the infamous Helen, whose
faithlessness in marriage was the catalyst for war in Homer's
Iliad. Although she is often seen as a minor character, more an
object of male desire than an autonomous subject in her own right,
Teasdale refuses to follow the template passed down by generations
of poets-mostly men. Her Helen is meditative and intelligent,
capable of immense sorrow and full-throated rage alike: "Men's
lives shall waste with longing after me, / For I shall be the sum
of their desire, / The whole of beauty, never seen again." While
acknowledging her role in Troy's destruction, Helen is a tragic
figure in Teasdale's poem, a woman who never asked for beauty, let
alone for the troubles that beauty brought down on the world.
Containing monologue poems from such figures as Sappho, Beatrice,
and Guenevere, alongside a series of love poems and finely-crafted
sonnets, Helen of Troy and Other Poems is a brilliant collection by
a gifted American poet. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's
Helen of Troy and Other Poems is a classic work of American poetry
reimagined for modern readers.
Rivers to the Sea (1915) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.
The poet's third collection, published several years before she was
awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric
poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber
and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Rivers to the
Sea revels in the mystery of existence itself. "The park is filled
with night and fog, / The veils are drawn about the world, / The
drowsy lights along the paths / Are dim and pearled." "Spring
Night," the collection's opening poem, begins in quiet reverie, its
speaker appreciating the beauty and mystery of a silent world while
suffering from heartache and uncertainty: "Oh, is it not enough to
be / Here with this beauty over me? / My throat should ache with
praise, and I / Should kneel in joy beneath the sky. / Oh, beauty
are you not enough?" A lyric poet to her core, Teasdale explores
the highs and lows of love in her own life and in the lives of
strangers. Personal and communal, public and private, her work is a
testament to a life spent in observance. For Teasdale, a poet who
merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical
distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world,
with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara
Teasdale's Rivers to the Sea is a classic work of American poetry
reimagined for modern readers.
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Love Songs
Sara Teasdale
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R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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