Love Songs (Version 2)


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With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading writers in the new Romanticism movement. The book of poems, originally published in 1917, saw five additional printings before its 1918 edition owing to the tremendous demand for her work. The collection was selected as the 1918 winner of the Columbia University Poetry Prize (a precursor to the Pulitzer Prize for poetry). In spite of her commercial success and influence on other female poets such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, the style of Teasdale’s work fell out of fashion and has often been ignored in anthologies of work from that period. Here we offer a reading of the 1918 edition of her work. - Summary by Elise Dee (0 hr 58 min)

Chapters

To E 1:00 Read by Cavaet
Barter 1:00 Read by EliseDee
Twilight 0:40 Read by Cavaet
Night Song at Amalfi 0:41 Read by EliseDee
The Look 0:34 Read by EliseDee
A Winter Night 0:49 Read by Cavaet
A Cry 0:37 Read by EliseDee
Gifts 0:33 Read by EliseDee
But Not for Me 0:44 Read by Cavaet
Song at Capri 0:36 Read by Cavaet
Child, Child 0:53 Read by Cavaet
Love Me 0:34 Read by EliseDee
Pierrot 0:48 Read by Cavaet
Wild Asters 0:35 Read by EliseDee
Song for Colin 0:36 Read by EliseDee
Four Winds 0:52 Read by Cavaet
Debt 0:37 Read by Cavaet
Faults 0:32 Read by Cavaet
Buried Love 0:50 Read by EliseDee
The Fountain 1:06 Read by Cavaet
I Shall Not Care 0:48 Read by Cavaet
After Parting 0:36 Read by EliseDee
A Prayer 0:38 Read by EliseDee
Spring Night 1:11 Read by EliseDee
May Wind 0:48 Read by Cavaet
Tides 0:40 Read by Cavaet
After Love 0:48 Read by Cavaet
New Love and Old 0:47 Read by EliseDee
The Kiss 0:35 Read by EliseDee
Swans 0:45 Read by Cavaet
The River 0:45 Read by Cavaet
November 0:39 Read by Cavaet
Spring Rain 1:02 Read by Cavaet
The Ghost 1:10 Read by EliseDee
Summer Night, Riverside 1:06 Read by EliseDee
Jewels 0:57 Read by Cavaet
Spirits House 0:52 Read by Cavaet
Mastery 0:51 Read by EliseDee
Lessons 0:44 Read by Cavaet
Wisdom 0:37 Read by EliseDee
In a Burying Ground 0:55 Read by Cavaet
Wood Song 0:36 Read by EliseDee
Refuge 0:47 Read by Cavaet
The Flight 0:47 Read by EliseDee
Dew 0:46 Read by EliseDee
To-Night 0:42 Read by Cavaet
Ebb Tide 0:49 Read by Cavaet
I Would Live in Your Love Forever 0:39 Read by EliseDee
Because 0:54 Read by EliseDee
The Tree of Song 0:47 Read by Cavaet
The Giver 0:34 Read by EliseDee
April Song 0:44 Read by Cavaet
The Wanderer 1:03 Read by Cavaet
The Years 0:53 Read by Cavaet
Enough 0:35 Read by EliseDee
Come 0:42 Read by Cavaet
Joy 0:36 Read by EliseDee
Riches 0:37 Read by Cavaet
Dusk in War Time 0:38 Read by EliseDee
Peace 0:42 Read by EliseDee
Moods 0:38 Read by Cavaet
Houses of Dreams 0:54 Read by Cavaet
Lights 1:01 Read by EliseDee
The Wind 0:39 Read by Cavaet
I Am Not Yours 1:10 Read by Cavaet
Doubt 0:35 Read by EliseDee
Morning 0:38 Read by EliseDee
Other Men 0:43 Read by EliseDee
Embers 0:49 Read by Cavaet
Message 0:34 Read by Cavaet
The Lamp 0:41 Read by Cavaet
A November Night 4:17 Read by EliseDee