SOURCE: “Look to the Stars,” in Sara Teasdale, Twayne Publishers, 1986.

In the following essay from her biographical and critical study of Teasdale and her work, Schoen examines Teasdale's most prolific period.

The years between the publication of Rivers to the Sea and Flame and Shadow represent the period of Teasdale's greatest fame, during which she became one of the most popular poets in America with critical approbation that gave her a national reputation. At one point in 1917 she had three different volumes available: Rivers to the Sea, which had gone into its fourth printing; The Answering Voice, her anthology of women's love lyrics; and Love Songs, a collection of her own old and new poetry. Her poems were widely anthologized, translated into many different languages, and often set to music. She received national prizes for her work and herself served as judge for other awards. The facts of...