And while her love poems are filled with passion, it is a restrained passion, in keeping with her upbringing in an upper-class family. She didn’t fare as well with later critics, but her popularity can be seen by the 1918 edition of Love Songs I own-it’s the fifth edition. During her lifetime, Teasdale’s poetry was broadly accepted by the public and critics alike. To read Love Songs today is to step backward in poetic time. It was there that, in 1917, she published Love Songs, which would win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1918. Louis for a short time until they moved to New York City. She married Ernst Filsinger, an admirer of her poetry, and they lived in St. She lived in the house on Kingsbury Place when she was courted by the poet Vachel Lindsay, who walked sadly away because he was not in the same economic and social class. Her first three poetry collections were published while she was a St. It was here that she learned her first poem had been published in 1907 by Reedy’s Mirror, a local newspaper. She lived here when she was part of a local group of women artists called The Potters, which published its own literary magazine. An interesting fact: Teasdale’s mother designed both of the family’s St. I suspect Teasdale’s family moved because of what was happening on the other side of Lindell Boulevard-all of Forest Park was being converted into the 1904 World’s Fair.
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