"How autocratic our country is becoming": The Sentimental Poetess at War.
Sara Teasdale has long been known as a quintessential "poetess": demure, genteel, and decidedly un-modern. This essay analyzes a selection of her uncollected and unpublished poems, produced between 1915 and 1918, in which the poet responds critically to World War I. Throughout these poems, as well a...
| Published in: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 41 - 65 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter2009
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