Word: vachel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mrs. Alice Corbin Henderson, 58, poet and first associate editor (under Founder Harriet Monroe) of Poetry Magazine, which first offered Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot and Vachel Lindsay to a high-3row audience; of a heart ailment; at her ranch near Santa...
...Blood!" screamed to whistles and the fifes of the warriors in Vachel Lindsay's "Congo" only a couple of decades ago, and the dread cry was raised again last night in Phillips Brooks House by President Charles Lipton...
...Vachel Lindsay's Simon Legree" in Douglas Moore's choral adaption enjoyed enthusiastic competence at the hands of the Tiger unit. Adept musical comedy touches in the solo made this selection attractive enough to smother the tastes of a poorly-directed "Promised Land" from "Porgy and Bess." In any event football classics such as "Going Back" would up the program to establish a final fresh collegiate taste that spells an audience verdict of success for the annual event...
...astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karl Shapiro. In Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Rabindranath Tagore got their first U.S. hearings. # Copyright by permission of Harcourt, Brace...
Faced with a class of 40 or 50 bloodthirsty, ten-year-old savages, what is the poor poetry teacher to do? Strong's secrets: pick poems on subjects that will interest the pupils; stress sound and rhythm ("Vachel Lindsay will help you a great deal"); don't be afraid of noise ("let them say it with all the ferocity they can manage"); keep explanation and annotation to a minimum ("I have heard more than once a heartfelt cry, 'Oh, sir, please don't explain it!' "); never do violence to a child's feelings...