Word: vachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the literary history of his time comes to be written, Carl Sandburg may well be esteemed the luckiest of his Midwestern generation. Vachel Lindsay and Edgar Lee Masters had as great if not greater native talent; even Ben Hecht, whose desk was next to Sandburg's on the Chicago Daily News in the early '20s, seemed a more brilliant, sophisticated writer. Of them all, Sandburg, the immigrant's son, got the surest roothold in authentic U. S. tradition, and got it perhaps by the near accident of digging for the truth about Abraham Lincoln. "That...
...First six: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Vachel Lindsay, Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
...poets who became his friends were Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, William Rose Benét and his wife, Elinor Wylie. Advised Lindsay: "Base the serious side of your criticism of poetry with the tone of Abraham Lincoln as a touchstone, and the criticism of humor on the tone of Mark Twain. . . . We must have a humorous standard. Young writers. . . have been offered every kind of freedom by the critics but this-the freedom to laugh...
...monopoly, vested interests and Wall Street as if unaware that his side had been licked. When he died in 1902, newspapers that had attacked him savagely began grudgingly giving him his due; in another ten years he had become a hero to midWest liberals, the "Eagle Forgotten" of Vachel Lindsay's poem...
Some day the brief cultural flowering of Chicago before and during the War may seem to historians a matter of genuine literary significance. Now it looks like a forced, half-artificial, overenthusiastic affair that was principally important because it gave audiences to Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood Anderson, and because it produced the magazine, Poetry...