Word: vachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...VACHEL LINDSAY-Edgar Lee Masters -Scribner...
Last week, with a new volume of verse and a biography of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters gave further evidence of the unevenness of his poetic gift and of his fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...
...paragraphs in this latest collection which could be broken up into regular metrical lines. Reading aloud the first story, "Candy-Man Beechum," with its rhythms which invite a singsong intonation and its refrain-like repetitions and variations of phrase, one gains much the same impression as from a Vachel Lindsay chant. There is, besides, the method familiar since Hemingway of crowding together important and unimportant things without emphasis or subordination...
...cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet. He has recorded Maine farmers, Blue Ridge mountaineers, Barnard girls, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, the late Poet Vachel Lindsay, the London Naval Conference and the late Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
...lectures nightly on sex. The favorite artists' restaurants are the Question Mark, the K-9 Club. Schlogel's in the Loop, Ballantine's on Rush Street and the Round Table in the basement of a butcher shop on Chicago Avenue. Since the great days when Poet Vachel Lindsay. Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dramatist Ben Hecht, et al. worked in Chicago, Chicago's Bohemia has declined...