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...Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten," wrote one Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
...much to lose; in fact, he lost the governorship at the next election, and later could not even get elected Mayor of Chicago. He died a relatively poor man at a relatively early age (55) in 1902, of locomotor ataxia. He was mourned by thousands, among them Poet Vachel Lindsay, who as a boy had known him as governor in Springfield...
...violence was also disciplined, in its way. In the U.S. it found one outlet in a literary war for imagism, a simple doctrine requiring poetry to be exact rather than mushy. The new little magazine Poetry, founded in 1912, fought to make verse exact as well as free. Vachel Lindsay, T. S. Eliot and others were published first in Poetry. When Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, H. D. et al. won, by the end of the decade, it was easier to admit the mild merit of rendering Uncle Alfred as, perhaps...
...more quickly and more clinically than U.S. literature. World War I had been preceded and followed by unprecedented bursts of U.S. writing. The American Renaissance, as it was bravely called, was studded with innovators like Theodore Dreiser, Edgar Lee Masters, Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Vachel Lindsay, Sinclair Lewis, and with solidly good writers like Willa Gather and Ellen Glasgow. Their books were often fiercely critical of U.S. mores and motives. But they spoke to a whole nation, and in their writing itself there was a sense of national achievement. By the '305 the bang...
...Many a lad who foregathered in Mr. Mac's smoke-filled apartment with six or seven fellow advisees stayed on till midnight, listening to the talk about poets and poetry - some times, at the meetings of Mr. Mac's Freneau Club, hearing from the poets them selves: Vachel Lindsay, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell...