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	May Sarton: A Poet's Life
		May Sarton, the only child of George and Mabel Elwes Sarton, was born in Wondelgem, Belgium in 1912.
		May enrolled in the "progressive" Shady Hill School and here, through the influence of Agnes Hocking, founder and poetry teacher, developed her life long love for and interest in poetry.
		For Sarton this posed a dilemma; she celebrated the serious recognition her work was beginning to receive yet shunned the label "lesbian writer" which she felt narrowly limited the perception and focus of her work.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/sarton/blouin-biography.html (2587 words)

	May Sarton by Eleanor Sullo
		May Sarton wrote poetry and journals into her eighties and remained a strong vivid voice for living life to the fullest.
		May Sarton came into her gracious old age naturally, virtually unchanged but only ripened in the essence of who she was.
		Proof of May Sarton's affect on her readers, and the extent of her influence are shown in the works continuing to be written about her and the fact that over 40 of her own works that continue in print.
	www.languageisavirus.com /may-sarton/writer_may_sarton_by_eleanor_sullo.php (1213 words)

	May Sarton Bio
		May Sarton wished that upon her death a fund would be established from the residue of her estate to provide scholarships for poets and historians of science.
		May Eleanor Sarton, a poet and novelist, was born in Wendelgem, Belgium on May 3, 1912, and immigrated to the United States at age four.
		May Sarton was born in Belgium in 1912.
	www.languageisavirus.com /may-sarton/writer_bio.php (2796 words)

	May Sarton: Biography
		Margot Peters had full access to May Sarton's letters, journals, and notes while she researched and wrote this biography, and the result is a book that charts Sarton's personal life as it explores her work as a poet, novelist, and feminist.
		There's no doubt that May Sarton had a complicated and sometimes ugly past, but Peters seems to go out of her way to characterize her subject negatively in nearly all accounts--the reason for which is not clear, unles she was hoping for a rather sensational best-seller.
		May Sarton's last journal "At Eighty-Two" was a rare view into the poignant grappling with the old age of a self-styled female curmudgeon, and in it she made cryptic references to the woman she had unwittingly agreed to allow as her biographer.
	www.xmlwriter.net /books/viewbook/May_Sarton:_Biography-0449907988.html (1436 words)

	Permanence and May Sarton LiteraryTraveler.com
		As I was fortunate enough to know May Sarton for the last seven years of her life, I interpret this poem in two ways: she wanted permanence in her friendships, some of which spanned six decades, and she wanted permanence in her homes.
		One of the most important things to Sarton in her orderly and cozy home in Maine (and also in Nelson) was her flowers both a profusion of them in a bay window and those in her outside gardens.
		May often said, if she were in solitary confinement, she would write only poetry, not prose.
	www.literarytraveler.com /special/sarton.htm (1007 words)

	Cookbook Store @ iChef (Site not responding. Last check: )
		May Sarton's frequently irritating The House By The Sea (1976) is the second of her published journals.
		Sarton, then, was living alone, as millions of people do, and, like many of those millions, surrounded by and with ready access to other men and women.
		Sarton, now living alone in a truly isolated, three - story, oceanfront house in Maine, complains continually about the weather, about the imperfect state of her massive lawn and garden, about having routine housework to do, and is often unhappy when she has guests but chronically longs for human companionship when's she's alone.
	www.ichef.com /cookbookstore.cfm?SearchType=SearchByAuthor&SearchTerm=Beverly%20Hallam (1176 words)

	Organica News -- Book Reviews: May Sarton: A Biography
		Sarton had a lifelong habit of seduction and a strongly perceived need for a "Muse" who, more often than not, was a woman that did not reciprocate her physical passion.
		May's first love was the theatre, and she worked for several years for the famous and talented Eva Le Gallienne, whose New York City's Apprentice Theatre introduced European plays to the American stage in the early 1930s.
		Sarton often maintained her lack of a success as a poet was due to her unfashionably passionate style; however, Peters finds that "she gave the same thing to too many poems as she did to people.
	www.organicanews.com /news/article.cfm?story_id=55 (809 words)

	May Sarton
		Margot Peters had full access to May Sarton's letters, journals, and notes while she researched and wrote this biography, and the result is a book that charts Sarton's personal life as it explores her work as a poet, novelist, and feminist.
		Sarton was born in Belgium in May 1914, three months before Germany invaded Belgium at the beginning of World War I. Leaving everything behind, her family emigrated to America when Sarton was four years old and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		For Sarton this posed a dilemma; she celebrated the serious recognition her work was beginning to receive yet shunned the label "lesbian writer" which she felt narrowly limited the perception and focus of her work.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/s/sarton_may.htm (1376 words)

	May Sarton
		It's Thayer's Portrait of May Sarton (at left), a depiction of the late poet in the prime of her life, on loan from the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, that presides most forcefully in this room.
		Sarton, a heroine of liberal-left lesbian activists in recent years, leans forward, dark hair held back with a band, smoking in her bold green jacket, orange sweater showing underneath, turquoise cuffs and pants contrasted dramatically against a crimson background.
		In 1973, May Sarton moved from the inland New Hampshire home that had been the scene of the creative and inner life she so powerfully probed in both Plant Dreaming Deep and Journal of a Solitude.
	www.purpleglitter.com /may_sarton (307 words)

	Review of 'Dear Juliette, Letters of May Sarton to Juliette Huxley' by May Sarton
		Sarton wrote unflinchingly about cancer; about infidelity; about depression; about hatred and prejudice; about friends and animals dying; about feeling suicidal in journals — such as Journal of a Solitude and The House by the Sea; in novels — such as A Reckoning and Kinds of Love; and in hundreds of poems.
		Also included are four of Sarton's drafts of a possible introduction to this book, two dozen of Juliette Huxley's letters to Sarton, and several photographs of the writer and the two of the Huxleys.
		May Sarton always found time — to write letters, to finish her novels and poetry, to reach out to a friend, old or new.
	www.pifmagazine.com /vol28/b_Sarton.shtml (1254 words)

	May Sarton, At Seventy
		May Sarton was an incredibly prolific writer, living to a ripe old age and creating for as long as she lived.
		Sarton lived a wild life as a young woman, and aging slowed her down.
		Sarton is like a reclusive, crabby aunt at times, and a nurturing mother figure at others.
	www.rambles.net /sarton_at70.html (560 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Sarton, May
		Of twentieth-century poets, Sarton is somewhat of an outsider in that she often preferred metered, rhymed verse to free verse.
		Sarton never patronizes the animal world; such a world gives beauty and definition to the lives of her characters.
		A portrait of May Sarton by Stathis Orphanos.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/sarton_m.html (828 words)

	May Sarton
		May's mother, Mabel Elwes, had been a designer of furniture and fabric in Belgium, but after moving to the United States, Mabel made these artistic interests secondary in order to care for her husband and child.
		May was impressed by the minister, Samuel McChord Crothers, whose sermons she thought "full of quiet wisdom." One sermon in particular, she recalled in her memoir At Seventy, 1984, "made a great impression on me—and really marked me for life.
		May Sarton's literary output is large; over the course of her writing life she produced over nineteen volumes of poetry, seventeen novels, nine journals and three memoirs.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/maysarton.html (2322 words)

	May Sarton
		May's mother, Mabel Elwes, had been a designer of furniture and fabric in Belgium, but after moving to the United States, Mabel made these artistic interests secondary in order to care for her husband and child.
		May was impressed by the minister, Samuel McChord Crothers, whose sermons she thought "full of quiet wisdom." One sermon in particular, she recalled in her memoir At Seventy, 1984, "made a great impression on me—and really marked me for life.
		May Sarton's literary output is large; over the course of her writing life she produced over nineteen volumes of poetry, seventeen novels, nine journals and three memoirs.
	www25.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/maysarton.html (2322 words)

	Lesbian Poet Herstory
		May traveled to Belgium for a year when she was very young and studied at the Institut Belge de Culture Française.
		May was a graduate of The High and Latin School in Cambridge in 1929 and won a scholarship to Vassar College but joined a repertory theatre in New York.
		May Sarton suffered a stroke in 1990 and was unable to concentrate enough to write.
	www.justaboutwrite.com /Herstory-Poet-MaySarton.html (857 words)

	Life and Wisdom of May Sarton
		May wrote in order to find out what she was feeling, and in the process went so deeply and so transparently, that she tapped into the well of universal human experience.
		May was born in Belgium, in 1912, and emigrated with her parents to escape the threat of German occupation.
		May spent most of her adult life living alone, most notably in New Hampshire and Maine, places where she found the solitude that she required to listen deeply to what was moving in her soul.
	wsuu.org /sermonMarySarton.html (1976 words)

	Reading Group: From May Sarton's Well
		As a collection of many of the beautiful and thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom from May Sarton's poetry and prose, From May Sarton's Well: Writings of May Sarton is an excellent introduction to the author's writing.
		Sarton was deeply affected by light, whether dazzling rays of sunlight or the "white light of a winter storm".
		May Sarton did not want to be known as a "nature poet", yet she wrote a great deal about the natural world.
	www.purpleglitter.com /may_sarton/writing_reading_group_from_may_sartons_well.php (401 words)

	Other Books by May Sarton
		Sarton's sixty-sixth year, 1978-79, was a difficult time for her as a cherished relationship ended, her latest novel received a devastating review, she had a mastectomy and fought against depression.
		In this affirmative journal, May Sarton writes of the both the hardships brought on by old age, and the joys she derives from her friends, nature, growing fame, and being able to write again.
		In it Sarton continues to adjust to the feeling that she is a stranger in the land of old age.
	www.goodalehillpress.com /OtherBooks.html (2095 words)

	May Sarton's Gift @ WomenWriters.net
		May gave me her permission (to give myself permission) to write poems and short stories, something I had not dared to do until I met her.
		Sarton not only urged me to write more, she convinced me to believe in my own power, in my own vision of the world.
		May Sarton's wisdom is still making an impact on my life and writing, and I will continue passing along what she so graciously and generously taught me.
	womenwriters.net /summer05/scholarly/straw.htm (2480 words)

	Writer May Sarton's Later Appeal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, Sarton finally found her audience in her late 50's when she published "Plant Dreaming Deep" (1968), a memoir of her years living alone in a Vermont village.
		Sarton was born in Belgium, just before World War I, the only daughter of parents (George and his English wife, Mabel).
		From the beginning, Sarton's mother fled her, repeatedly leaving her with friends, relatives or anyone who could be persuaded to take her.
	www.cftech.com /BrainBank/TRIVIABITS/MaySart.html (282 words)

	May Sarton: A Poet
		When she was twelve years old Sarton traveled to Belgium for a year to live with the Limbosch family, Celine, Raymond and their children, studying at the Institut Belge de Culture Francaise.
		May Sarton graduated from the Cambridge High and Latin School in Cambridge in 1929.
		It is clear that the end of the 1970s marked an increasingly fertile period for May Sarton in which she honed the journal style and produced her third memoir, A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/sarton.html (2800 words)

	May Sarton's Gift @ WomenWriters.net
		May gave me her permission (to give myself permission) to write poems and short stories, something I had not dared to do until I met her.
		Sarton not only urged me to write more, she convinced me to believe in my own power, in my own vision of the world.
		May Sarton's wisdom is still making an impact on my life and writing, and I will continue passing along what she so graciously and generously taught me.
	www.womenwriters.net /summer05/scholarly/straw.htm (2480 words)

	Advancing Women in Leadership Journal
		Sarton writes in such detail about the multiple facets of her illness and especially about her overpowering depression that the dark aura of the book is inescapable.
		Sarton's deep devotion to pets did not make her oblivious to the suffering of humans throughout the world.
		As a final gift, May Sarton shares with us the many books she was reading as well as her opinion of them.
	www.advancingwomen.com /awl/summer98/BKRV.html (791 words)

	Amazon.com: Journal of a Solitude: Books: May Sarton (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sarton, her close friends, and colleagues all appear to exist in a brittle world where truthful communication and direct, honest criticism are to be strenuously avoided in the name of continued social niceties.
		Sarton was soon to become a cottage industry for her publishers, turning out further volumes of banal poetry -- "Moose In The Morning" -- and, like Edith Sitwell in old age, simply publishing too much without due editorial consideration.
		Sarton's moments of anxiety, despair, and doubt, as well as her stoicism, fortitude, and courage, are sincerely expressed, touching, and inspiring.
	www.amazon.com /Journal-Solitude-May-Sarton/dp/0393309282 (2211 words)

	Books of the poet: May Sarton - book works writings work
		May Sarton is an insightful writer in all of her books.
		May Sarton wrote poetry, novels, children's books, anthologies, and nonfiction, but she may be remembered longest for her journals.
		Sarton begins AT SEVENTY with the arrival of the daffodils "a tiny bunch of miniature daffodils, blue starflowers, and glory be two fritillaries." She is back from a month of poetry reading in Connecticut and remarks that her friend Edith Haddaway has left a small bunch of roses for her birthday.
	www.poemhunter.com /may-sarton/books (2175 words)

	Letters across the Atlantic : H.D., Bryher, May Sarton, during WW2
		May Sarton had been uprooted from her Belgian flower garden childhood at the age of two, wandering as a displaced person with her English-born mother and Belgian father.
		Sarton's published journals may be seen as a variation on her thought/feeling process--informal prose dialogues with the self, nevertheless written with the idea of possible publication to a wide, amorphous audience.
		May Sarton was now coming into her full strengths, happy in a stable relationship, aware of herself as a writer of poetry and prose.
	www.imagists.org /hd/hdcmone.html (4726 words)

	At Eighty-two Review - May Sarton
		Sarton struggles with solitude and relationships, with her creative self, with contradictory memories, with her own willfulness and lack of patience, with her love of animals and sensitivity to the natural world.
		These small things are the components of which a life is made, and increasingly in Sarton’s eighty- second year, the ways in which it is diminished and compromised.
		Redundancy and contradiction in the entries emphasize not just the commonplace, but the physical state of Sarton’s health after a series of small strokes and a terrible depression that leads her to an experiment with Prozac.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/eighty-two (300 words)

	The Governor in the Garden: May Sarton, More and More
		Hampered late last winter by a stroke and "imprisoned" in bed for another nine months with a heart condition, she has been unable, for the first time in forty years, to begin her biennial novel.
		Born in Ghent, Belgium, of an artistic British mother and French-Belgian father (George Sarton, author of the massive study The History of Science), Sarton hardly figured to spend the bulk of her life in rural New Hampshire and Maine as one of America's premier poets of fixed place.
		But something in her swerved away from mere stylishness, and she commenced a more inward journey, far from the fashionable, bestselling path through solitude, personal revelation, and a loyalty to the more enduring spirits -- friendship, nature, and the perfectionist demands of a her art.
	www.mfinley.com /kraken/may_sarton-start.htm (471 words)

	May Sarton
		It's Thayer's Portrait of May Sarton (at left), a depiction of the late poet in the prime of her life, on loan from the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, that presides most forcefully in this room.
		Sarton, a heroine of liberal-left lesbian activists in recent years, leans forward, dark hair held back with a band, smoking in her bold green jacket, orange sweater showing underneath, turquoise cuffs and pants contrasted dramatically against a crimson background.
		In 1973, May Sarton moved from the inland New Hampshire home that had been the scene of the creative and inner life she so powerfully probed in both Plant Dreaming Deep and Journal of a Solitude.
	www.languageisavirus.com /may-sarton (307 words)

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