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...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...
...exhibition was notable for its revelation of the number of first-class writers Harriet Monroe had discovered. To U. S. readers Poetry introduced Yeats, Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rupert Brooke when they had only small reputations abroad, brought out poets of the stature of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Vachel Lindsay, who had never published anywhere until Poetry gave them an outlet...
...full of holes that it is more like daily starvation. Some of them, to get more literary nutrition, have gone to Europe: Missourian T. S. Eliot lives in England; Idahoan Ezra Pound lives in Italy. Others who have remained at home, as Robert Frost* and the late Vachel Lindsay, have managed on their starvation rations to work out a poetry that presents pinched versions of reality recognizable to other protestant Americans. Still others, fed up with starvation, if not with protest, chew on the stringent cud of their inner man. Among U. S. poets who chew nutritious cuds are Southern...
Among other well known poems shown are Amy Lowell's "Evelyn Ray," Carl Sandburg's "Chicago," Vachel Lindsay's "Congo" and "General William Booth Enters into Heaven...