Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Great Regulars: "Before she died in 1933, Sara Teasdale

won the first Pulitzer prize for poetry. Her direct and lyrical poems were enormously popular in her lifetime and, like her poem here, she possessed both skill and insight. This poem shares common ground with her wittier, younger compatriot, Dorothy Parker. Life, it seems to say, is wasted on the young."

from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner

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