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To One Unknown
Source: Poetry (October 1912).
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Biography
The daughters of a wealthy Chicago medical doctor, Helen Dudley and her artistically inclined sisters—known as the “Dudley girls”—were famous in Chicago’s literary circles for their wit, exuberance, and talent. Dudley and her sister Dorothy (Dudley) Harvey wrote poetry and published poems in the first edition of Poetry; Helen’s poems were included in Harriet Monroe’s New Poetry: An Anthology (1917). In the early teens, Helen . . .
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SUBJECT Relationships, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Love, Romantic Love, Infatuation & Crushes, Unrequited Love
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
Poetic Terms Imagery, Rhymed Stanza, Ballad, Refrain
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