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Love Songs (Version 2)

by Sara TEASDALE (1884 - 1933)

A Winter Night

With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading writers in the new Romanticism movement. The book of poems, originally published in 1917, saw five additional printings before its 1918 edition owing to the tremendous demand for her work. The collection was selected as the 1918 winner of the Columbia University Poetry Prize (a precursor to the Pulitzer Prize for poetry). In spite of her commercial success and influence on other female poets such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, the style of Teasdale’s work fell out of fashion and has often been ignored in anthologies of work from that period. Here we offer a reading of the 1918 edition of her work. - Summary by Elise Dee

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Listen next episodes of Love Songs (Version 2):
A Cry , A November Night , A Prayer , After Love , After Parting , April Song , Because , Buried Love , But Not for Me , Child, Child , Come , Debt , Dew , Doubt , Dusk in War Time , Ebb Tide , Embers , Enough , Faults , Four Winds , Gifts , Houses of Dreams , I Am Not Yours , I Shall Not Care , I Would Live in Your Love Forever , In a Burying Ground , Jewels , Joy , Lessons , Lights , Love Me , Mastery , May Wind , Message , Moods , Morning , New Love and Old , November , Other Men , Peace , Pierrot , Refuge , Riches , Song at Capri , Song for Colin , Spirits House , Spring Night , Spring Rain , Summer Night, Riverside , Swans , The Flight , The Fountain , The Ghost , The Giver , The Kiss , The Lamp , The River , The Tree of Song , The Wanderer , The Wind , The Years , Tides , To-Night , Wild Asters , Wisdom , Wood Song