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Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. She was born Sara Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri, and used the name Sara Teasdale Filsinger after her marriage in 1914.〔Collection of Teasdale's letters in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library.〕 ==Biography== Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884. She had such poor health for so much of her childhood, home schooled until age 9, that it was only at age 10 that she was well enough to begin school. She started at Mary Institute in 1898, but switched to Hosmer Hall in 1899, graduating in 1903. Teasdale's first poem was published in ''Reedy's Mirror'', a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, ''Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems'', was published that same year. Teasdale's second collection, ''Helen of Troy and Other Poems'', was published in 1911. It was well received by critics, who praised its lyrical mastery and romantic subject matter. From 1911 to 1914 Teasdale was courted by several men, including the poet Vachel Lindsay, who was truly in love with her but did not feel that he could provide enough money or stability to keep her satisfied. She chose to marry Ernst Filsinger, a longtime admirer of her poetry, on December 19, 1914. Teasdale's third poetry collection, ''Rivers to the Sea'', was published in 1915. It was and is a bestseller, being reprinted several times. In 1916 she and Filsinger moved to New York City, where they lived in an Upper West Side apartment on Central Park West. In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection ''Love Songs''. It was "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society"; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (inaugurated 1922).〔("Poetry" ). The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-24.〕 Filsinger's constant business travel caused Teasdale much loneliness.〔Letters from Sara Teasdale to Mr. Braithwaite expressing her loneliness can be accessed at the Berg Collection.〕 In 1929, she moved interstate for three months, thereby satisfying the criteria to gain a divorce. She did not wish to inform Filsinger, only doing so at her lawyers' insistence as the divorce was going through. Filsinger was shocked. After the divorce she moved only two blocks from her old home on Central Park West. She rekindled her friendship with Vachel Lindsay, who was now married with children. In 1933, she died by suicide, overdosing on sleeping pills.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) )〕 Lindsay had died by suicide two years earlier. She is interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sara Teasdale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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