{"product_id":"helen-of-troy-and-other-poems-9781513135168","title":"Helen of Troy and Other Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen of Troy and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1911) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's second collection, published several years before she was awarded the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, romance, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, \u003ci\u003eHelen of Troy and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e revels in the mystery of existence itself. \"Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn \/ The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. \/ This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead \/ That sparkled so the day I saw it first, \/ And darkened slowly after. I am she \/ Who loves all beauty--yet I wither it.\" As Troy burns, Teasdale imagines an impassioned monologue given from the ramparts by the infamous Helen, whose faithlessness in marriage was the catalyst for war in Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. Although she is often seen as a minor character, more an object of male desire than an autonomous subject in her own right, Teasdale refuses to follow the template passed down by generations of poets--mostly men. Her Helen is meditative and intelligent, capable of immense sorrow and full-throated rage alike: \"Men's lives shall waste with longing after me, \/ For I shall be the sum of their desire, \/ The whole of beauty, never seen again.\" While acknowledging her role in Troy's destruction, Helen is a tragic figure in Teasdale's poem, a woman who never asked for beauty, let alone for the troubles that beauty brought down on the world. Containing monologue poems from such figures as Sappho, Beatrice, and Guenevere, alongside a series of love poems and finely-crafted sonnets, \u003ci\u003eHelen of Troy and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant collection by a gifted American poet. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's \u003ci\u003eHelen of Troy and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mint Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781513135168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Sara Teasdale","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769739415733,"sku":"9781513135168","price":11.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_35ad1df8-709a-4d68-81c4-3632e1499854.jpg?v=1678836393","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/helen-of-troy-and-other-poems-9781513135168","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}