Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
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"There is hardly another American woman-poet whose poetry is generally known and loved like that of Sara Teasdale. `Rivers to the Sea', her latest volume of lyrics, possesses the delicacy of imagery, the inward illumination, the high vision that characterize the poetry that will endure the test of time." -- `Review of Reviews'. "`Rivers to the Sea' is a book of sheer delight. . . . Her touch turns everything to song." -- Edward J. Wheeler, in `Current Opinion'. "Sara Teasdale's lyrics have the clarity, the precision, the grace and fragrance of flowers." -- Harriet Monroe, in `Poetry'. "Sara Teasdale has a genius for the song, for the perfect lyric, in which the words seem to have fallen into place without art or effort." -- Louis Untermeyer, in `The Chicago Evening Post'. "`Rivers to the Sea' is the best book of pure lyrics that has appeared in English since A. E. Housman's `A Shropshire Lad'." -- William Marion Reedy, in `The Mirror'. "`Rivers to the Sea' is the most beautiful book of pure lyrics that has come to my hand in years." -- `Los Angeles Graphic'. "Sara Teasdale sings about love better than any other contemporary American poet." -- `The Boston Transcript'. "`Rivers to the Sea' is the most charming volume of poetry that has appeared on either side of the Atlantic in a score of years." -- `St. Louis Republic'. |
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