Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)
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From Springfield, Illinois, Lindsay studied at Hiram College, the Chicago Art Institute, and the New York Art School, turning to poetry only after he had no success as an artist. The appeal of Vachel Lindsay's poetry is, first and foremost, one of sound. Many of his poems are meant to be chanted mehr anzeigen aloud, intoned, or sung. The poet was a phenomenon in his day, who became famous for the recitation of his poems. He preached a gospel of beauty expressed in almost primitive cadences. His early art studies under Robert Henri gave him the ability to illustrate his own poems, and he developed an elaborate theory of art that has gone largely ignored. Among his best-known works are "General William Booth Enters Heaven", published in Poetry Magazine in 1913, and "The Congo" (1914). (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Vachel Lindsay
A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity; Being Sundry Explorations, Made While Afoot and… (1916) 8 Exemplare
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (2007) 8 Exemplare
Poetry of Vachel Lindsay : Complete and With Lindsay's Drawings (v. 3: Bibliography) (1986) 2 Exemplare
The Eagle That Is Forgotten [poem] 2 Exemplare
The golden whales of California 1 Exemplar
General William Booth Enters Heaven 1 Exemplar
In praise of Johnny Appleseed: An extra-large print senior reader classic poetry book with coloring sheets (2019) 1 Exemplar
“The Flower-fed Buffaloes” 1 Exemplar
Short Poetry Collection 175 1 Exemplar
TREE #5 (Summer 1975) 1 Exemplar
The Potatoes' Dance (A Poem Game) 1 Exemplar
The Mysterious Cat 1 Exemplar
The Magnanimous Sun 1 Exemplar
An Explanation of the Grasshopper 1 Exemplar
The Daniel Jazz 1 Exemplar
Little Turtles 1 Exemplar
The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race {poem} 1 Exemplar
General William Booth Enters Heaven {poem} 1 Exemplar
Kongo 1 Exemplar
The Moon's the North Wind's Cookie {poem} 1 Exemplar
Aladdin and the Jinn [poem] 1 Exemplar
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight [poem] 1 Exemplar
Factory Windows Are Always Broken [poem] 1 Exemplar
Euclid [poem] 1 Exemplar
Prologue. A Sense of Humor [poem] 1 Exemplar
What Semiramis Said [poem] 1 Exemplar
The Congo 1 Exemplar
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Mitwirkender — 439 Exemplare
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Mitwirkender — 174 Exemplare
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Mitwirkender — 156 Exemplare
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Mitwirkender — 100 Exemplare
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Mitwirkender — 34 Exemplare
American poets, an anthology of contemporary verse — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel
- Geburtstag
- 1879-11-10
- Todestag
- 1931-12-05
- Begräbnisort
- Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Springfield, Illinois, USA
- Sterbeort
- Springfield, Illinois, USA
- Wohnorte
- Hiram, Ohio, USA
New York, New York, USA
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Spokane, Washington, USA - Ausbildung
- Hiram College
New York School of Art (now The New School)
Chicago Art Institute - Berufe
- poet
lecturer
illustrator
movie critic
museum guide
journalist - Beziehungen
- Teasdale, Sara (friend)
- Organisationen
- Authors Guild
Playwrights and Composers of Great Britain
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Poetry Society of America
Incorporated Society of Playwrights
English Speaking Union (Zeige alle 14)
Cliff Dwellers
Players
Author's Club
Marshall Field's
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nicholls Gas Tubing Works
Young Men's Christian Association
Anti-Saloon League - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Poetry magazine prizes
Helen H. Levinson Prize
Litt.D., Baylor University
Litt.D., Hiram College
Vachel Lindsay House
Phi Beta Kappa
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The Chinese nightingale, and other poems von Vachel Lindsay
This poet uses words to beat you around the head with a stick. His ideas are the ideological Christian-pacifist of the early 1900s. Women and the "savage peoples" are the idyll of nature. I felt most of the poems about "savage peoples" were patronizing.
There is much to be said for dismissing this poem as too racist to read. However, if you can get through that, it has one redeeming feature which is the use of African American and jazz rhythms and tunes as an underlying score for the poem. There is a recording of Lindsay reading it, so we know exactly how he intended to it to be read.
What a difference a century makes. The title poem, The Congo, was probably considered daring and innovative in 1913. As the poem deals with the effect of a primitive inheritance on the African-American soul and contains lines like "Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you", my guess is that today Lindsay would be villified and boycotted. There's some nice stuff in this collection. He wrote well for children. I hadn't realized that "The moon's the north wind's cookie" was once of his and his whole 22-poem sequence on the moon is very nice. The last section of the book is patriotic and dreadful. World War I began in August of 1914 and Lindsay wrote 4 or 5 poems expressing his outrage over German-Austrian aggression. He must have written them quickly to make his publishing date and it shows. His heart's in the right place, but the poetry's not very good.… (mehr)
I frankly find the title poem pretty awful --both racist and silly. However, I dearly love General Booth Enters Heaven and Bryan. The Booth poem reminds me of Booth's saying he would play the tambourine with his toes if it brought one more soul to haven, and Lord Manfield's statement that the Salvation Army was the one truly Christian group in Britain. "Bryan" may not be fair to McKinlay, who was much more than Hanna's other suit of clothes, but it wonderfully conveys the excitement of the Bryan campaign.… (mehr)
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