ABSTRACT
An extremely popular poet during her lifetime, Sara Teasdaleis noted for her fidelity to traditional poetics and her mastery of the short lyric. She embraced neither the Modernist movement of her generation nor the strict tenets of her Baptist roots. Teasdale's lyrics, infused by her own romantic inclinations and influenced initially by her admiration of Sir Walter Scott, Christina Rossetti, Swinburne, Keats, and later Yeats, strive for the "music of stillness holy and low" ("There Will Be Rest").
