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...Vachel Lindsay: He had "the innocent, desperate eccentricity of the artist in a world which had no room for, no patience with, artists . . . Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim ... it is hard to remember how precariously hand to mouth his existence...
Among the other delights of the current Pharaetra, Mr. Mason Dixon Harris's Dawn on Land and Sea displays the control and vividness which has marked his recent work; Mr. David Landon plays with quickly changing metaphors; Mr. John Berendt parodies Vachel Lindsay, with particularly ironic intent; Mr. Arthur Levin parodies Mr. Alexander Pope, who tends to resist parody pretty well...
...shapes to bodiless little noises, to picture 'the creatures you thought might make the sounds you could not identify." The two pictures together seemed to prove what Graves himself denies: that both whispers in the grass and the roaring of machinery can be beautiful, in totally different ways. Vachel Lindsay, an earlier American romantic, once put the point in verse...
...West-Going Heart, by Eleanor Ruggles. A warm biography of Vachel Lindsay, whose boomlay-booming verse was once the rage of the lecture circuit...
Booth Led Boldly. Vachel began in Jacksonville, Fla., provisioned with a packet of poems and no money. For two months he wandered to the Northwest, trading poems and talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical...