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...Vachel Lindsay's latest lyrics come close to that theme, play with it a bit, and then reject it with whole-hearted aversion. To his mind, which delights in parable, analogue, and symbol, the monotonous measure of progress is anathema. In the words of the mixed blood, whose thoughts and fancies are the subject of the poems, one reads the theme of the collection...
Interwoven with the poetic freedom which portrays the more inexpressible thoughts of the woods is a subtle humor. In two unexpected lines, Vachel Lindsay summarizes neatly a whole political campaign. The couplet bears repeating for the benefit of staunch members of the Republican club...
...instance: there is an obviously uncomplimentary picture of a dean ordering dropped eggs. There is a blatant reference, in the style of Vachel Lindsay, to Mumbo Greenough. It is badly states that a professor of history has big feet,--this observation is not even decently veiled by utilizing the convenient literary device of spelling the name M-RR-M-N. Then there is the evil suggestion that as "mid-years are approaching it will be far from undiplomatic for the subtle student to commence accosting his section men with the title professor." What could be more offensive that this, suggesting...
...Vachel Lindsay is a poet without art; he is an inspired poet without art; he has inspiration without taste. Not tasteless is the inspiration that has Vachel Lindsay, but I mean that his inspiration, the song on his lips, is not restrained by dictates of taste. Not restrained at all is his inspiration, not by question of taste at all, not by question of art at all, not by question of what-is-absurd-and-what-is-not-absurd at all. For absurd often is his inspiration, not dictated, no, nor emendated, not yet always ill-fated, for children...
...except ye be as a child ye cannot ascend Parnassus without art. And Vachel Lindsay is a child without art, and as a child without art he sets out bravely not toward Parnassus but toward the mountains of Glacier Park, toward Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and the Red Gods, and various flowers, and love in a cabin, and far horizons. As a child he returns with a bouquet of words about Sun-Mountain, and Wolf-Peak, and various flowers, and far horizons, and the Red Gods, and love in a cabin. As the bouquet of a child is this...