Word: vachell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike the Oxford book, however, Mr. Gay has not restricted himself to the poets of England alone. One finds Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Eleanor Wylie, Vachel Lindsay, and others, listed with an admirable breadth of taste. On the other hand, the old favorites do not suffer from this inclusive grouping. In some six hundred pages the anthologist has managed to gather together the finest of the old and still he has found space for examples of the new. When it is realized that he has also given many excerpts from longer works--such as from Shakespeare's plays and from...
...year to publish it. It gives bits of information and advances the ideas of Mr. Ford. For example, the current issue contains such articles as: "A Preacher tells the Inside Story of Sinclair Lewis and his Preacher Book," "The Gibson Girl and Other Symbols of Yesterday" by Vachel Lindsay, "The True Story of Mary's Little Lamb," "Japan Looks to America to Prevent Wars," "Every Person Has at Least One Book in Him," and the usual "Mr. Ford's Page...
Only from men whose meaning is not yet altogether clear is there great promise - Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay - and from the new attitudes of science: pure research and speculation; the translations, such as A. N. Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, of science into full human existence...
...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...