Her soul valued beauty and love above all else:
She can be wonderfully playful, telling a thrush to go call her lover: She expresses herself with utter simplicity: Her poetry ranges a full gamut from utter joy to deep loneliness. The man she may have loved more than any other, the poet Vachel Lindsay, killed himself two years earlier. Louis.Sara Teasdale - the winner of one of the earliest Pulitzer Prizes for poetry, winner of the Poetry Society of America prize, and other honors - believed passionately in the power and beauty of love, yet in her own life, love was not enough she died by her own hand after a long illness. She is interred in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Her friend Vachel Lindsay had committed suicide two years earlier. In 1933, she committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills. She rekindled her friendship with Vachel Lindsay, who was by this time married with children. Post-divorce, Teasdale remained in New York City, living only two blocks away from her old home on Central Park West. She did not wish to inform Filsinger, and only did so at the insistence of her lawyers as the divorce was going through - Filsinger was shocked and surprised. In 1929, she moved interstate for three months, thereby satisfying the criteria to gain a divorce. In 1918, her poetry collection Love Songs (released 1917) won three awards: the Columbia University Poetry Society prize, the 1918 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America.įilsinger was away a lot on business which caused a lot of loneliness for Teasdale. A year later, in 1916 she moved to New York City with Filsinger, where they resided in an Upper West Side apartment on Central Park West. Teasdale's third poetry collection, Rivers to the Sea, was published in 1915 and was a best seller, being reprinted several times. She chose instead to marry Ernst Filsinger, who had been an admirer of her poetry for a number of years, on December 19, 1914. In the years 1911 to 1914, Teasdale was courted by several men, including poet Vachel Lindsay, who was absolutely in love with her but did not feel that he could provide enough money or stability to keep her satisfied.
It was well received by critics, who praised its lyrical mastery and romantic subject matter. Teasdale's second collection of poems, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, was published in 1911. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published that same year. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Louis, Missouri, and after her marriage in 1914 she went by the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger. Sara Teasdale was an American lyrical poet.
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