Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner
Fiddler's Farewell
by Leonora Speyer
Summary
The collection moves through love, memory, and the natural world in a strongly musical lyric line shaped by Speyer's ear for tempo and phrasing. Trained as a concert violinist, she works largely in traditional forms while admitting modern psychological shading. Her poems sit between late Romantic feeling and the cooler attentiveness of her own century.
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Historical Context & Significance
Speyer was a prominent figure in New York literary society; her work bridges the gap between traditional lyric forms and modern sensibilities.