The Answering Voice, One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women - Selected by Sara Teasdale. First Edition newest published in 1917

THE ANSWERING VOICE One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women, selected by Sara Teasdale. Published by Houghton Mifflin. 1917 First Edition. Small hardback bound in red cloth-covered boards with gilt title on the front with blind stamped title on the spine. Only defects to note are faded title on the spine and former owner's bookplate inside front cover. Love lyrics selected by Sara Teasdale of women poets from the last half of the newest 19th century who wrote in English. 131 pages including the Index of Authors. Among the "Who's Who" of women poets selected by Teasdale are: Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Emily Dickinson; Christina Rossetti; Dinah Mulock Cruik; Jean Ingelow; Margaret Sackville; Alice Meynell; and Edith Wharton. A scarce addition to a collection emphasizing both well and lesser-known 19th-century female poets as selected by their peer.