Leonora Speyer
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Leonora Speyer (1872-1956) was an American poet and violinist.
She was born in Washington, D.C. She studied music in Brussels, Paris, and Leipzig, and played the violin professionally under the batons of Arthur Nikisch and Anton Seidl, among others. She married Sir Edgar Speyer, of London, where the couple lived until 1915. That year, they came to the U. S. and took up residence in New York, where Speyer began writing poetry. She won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Fiddlers Farewell."[1]
[edit] Selected Works
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- American Poets, An Anthology Of Contemporary Verse (1923)
- Fiddler's Farewell (1926)
- Holy Night; A Yule-Tide Masque (1919)
- Slow wall; poems, together with Nor without music (1944)
