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TEASDALE, SARA (MRS ERNST B. FILSINGER). Flame and shadow. *$1.75 Macmillan 811
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“Sara Teasdale has found a philosophy of life and death. In this latest book we may watch the conflict between the light that comes from the everlasting flame and the darkness that is the ever-present shadow.... There are many poems in ‘Flame and shadow’ to delight those who cannot share her philosophy. There are songs of the faithful beauty of Aldebaran and Altair, and songs of the open sea and the mountains. It is necessary to mention, also, the songs of places, of St Louis, of New York, and Santa Barbara, and the songs of people and of their secret thoughts, ‘rushing without sound’ from the hidden places of their minds. But the best of Sara Teasdale’s songs of people are her love songs, always.”—N Y Times
“While other melodists are still copying the effects of Sara Teasdale, Miss Teasdale has stopped imitating herself. The clean, straightforward idiom of ‘Rivers to the sea’ has a warmer naturalism in ‘Flame and shadow,’ a more spontaneous intensity.” L: Untermeyer
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“Into these songs are gathered many an element, many a mood, many an image that I cannot display here upon the screen of comment. It is indeed almost like sacrilege to do ought but read and be delighted by the rare and subtle presentment of them in Miss Teasdale’s songs.” W. S. B.
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“Sara Teasdale seems constantly assailed with two temptations, and it is only at intervals that she entirely surmounts them. One is the temptation to make effective endings, to save up points and appeals for a last line. The other temptation is to deal exclusively in stock love-lyric materials.” Mark Van Doren