Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933) wrote seven books of poetry. Many of Teasdale’s poems chart developments in her own life, from her experiences as a sheltered young woman in St. Louis, to those as a successful yet increasingly uneasy writer in New York City, to a depressed and disillusioned person who would commit suicide in 1933. Although later critics and scholars have excluded Teasdale from canons of early 20th century American verse, she was popular in her lifetime.