Vachel Lindsay; a Poet in America PDF Download

Author: Edgar Lee Masters
Publisher: Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN: 9780819602398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426

View

Book Description

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 520

View

Book Description
Lindsay was typecast by his contemporaries as a "jazz poet" an appellation kept alive by his exhausting but financially essential reading tours. This selection of his letters shows his yearning to be a poetic savior, an American original, his instinctive appreciation of the infant movie industry's importance, and the hidden (self-hidden) struggle to escape from the iron hand of his mother. They also reveal the basic shallowness of his intellect and talent, despite a capacity for sensing the new demands made on literature by America and the twentieth century.

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196

View

Book Description
More than 75 works, including a number of Lindsay's most popular performance pieces, "The Congo" and "The Santa Fe Trail" among them.

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136

View

Book Description

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

View

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Golden Book of Springfield" by Vachel Lindsay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964603783
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 235

View

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

View

Book Description
The Department of English of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents information about the life and works of American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) as part of "Modern American Poetry (MAPS)." The information includes a selection of poems, commentary, and a chronology of Lindsay's life, as well as a biographical sketch.

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 378

View

Book Description

Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 322

View

Book Description

Author: Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher: Academica Press,LLC
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

View

Book Description
Vachel Lindsay introduced a genuinely new rhythm into American poetry and was America's first real folk poet--superior to Sandburg and articulating a sense of awe, loss and resentment at the passing of the older freedoms and dignities of pre industrial America. His topics (Negro revivals, Salvation Army meetings, Chautauqua gatherings) would seem to be utterly dated---yet Lindsay was a modernist in spite of himself and influenced greatly later poets and writers as dis separate as Hart Crane, Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, James T Farrell and William Faulkner as well as Jack Kerouac. Professor Rogal argues it was Lindsay's vision of the American Midwest heartland and its people than informed and empowered Lindsay's greatest poetry. And his performance skills enhanced his poetry during his short vagabond lifetime. "... This work argues for the continuing importance of Vachel Lindsay...the author certainly puts forth a strong case for the poet's importance to the American poetic tradition and that tradition's inherent bardic energies and geomancy" Professor T. Badin. D/American Literature, Zagreb University