Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (/ˈveɪtʃəl ˈlɪnzi/; November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry...
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The Vachel Lindsay House is a historic house museum at 603 South 5th Street in Springfield, Illinois. Built in 1848, it was the birthplace and lifelong...
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"Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" is a lyric poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. Written in August 1919, the poem recounts the dramatic rise and fall of U...
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2016. Camp, Dennis. "Uncle Boy: A Biography of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay: Poet" (PDF). Vachel Lindsay. Dennis Camp. Retrieved 17 February 2016. Ehmen, Linda...
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ice hockey player Thomas Martin Lindsay (1843–1914) Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931), American poet William Lauder Lindsay (1829–1880), Scottish physician and...
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calliope. This, in turn, came from a poem by Vachel Lindsay, called "The Kallyope [sic] Yell", in which Lindsay uses both pronunciations. In the song "Blinded...
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another, contributed to the broader American culture. Wandering poet Vachel Lindsay, most famous for his poem "The Congo" and a booklet called "Rhymes to...
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friendship with Vachel Lindsay, who was now married with children. In 1933, she died by suicide, overdosing on sleeping pills. Lindsay had died by suicide...
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critical essays and articles, and has edited the poems of Vachel Lindsay (Selected Poems of Vachel Lindsay, 1963) and the journals of James Boswell (Heart of...
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Apple-Seed John." In 1921, 1923, 1927, and 1928, American song poet Vachel Lindsay published poems about Johnny Appleseed. One of these poems was the source...
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utopian book by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It is the only extended, narrative work of prose fiction written by Lindsay. Written from 1904 to 1918 and...
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and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman. He was born in Garnett, Kansas, to attorney Hardin...
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the Indian Summer". Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "Our Indian Summer". Vachel Lindsay wrote "An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's...
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elected by the High Council of The Salvation Army. In Booth's honour, Vachel Lindsay wrote the poem "General William Booth Enters into Heaven". Charles Ives...
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2011-10-28 at the Wayback Machine and Lawrence H. Conrad Collection of Vachel Lindsay and Robert Frost Material in Archives and Special Collections, Amherst...
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work with Morris Day and the Time and Purple Rain, born in Springfield Vachel Lindsay, poet, considered the father of modern singing poetry, wrote first book...
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lyrics for the song "The Voice of the Sand" are based upon the poetry of Vachel Lindsay. The album was reissued in 1989 on CD by Rough Trade Records, in 1999...
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music, as demonstrated by actresses Sophie Schroder and Fanny Kemble. Vachel Lindsay helped maintain the tradition of poetry as spoken art in the early twentieth...
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1925 after he left three of his poems beside the plate of famed poet Vachel Lindsay at the hotel where he worked, who then read the poems at a large poetry...
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"Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight" is a 1914 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It portrays Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Springfield, Illinois...
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each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert...
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compared it to the works of Christopher Smart, Ebenezer Elliot, and Vachel Lindsay. The popularity of "I Am Canadian" in Canada led to many parodies of...
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Langston Hughes T. E. Hulme David Jones Rudyard Kipling D. H. Lawrence Vachel Lindsay Amy Lowell Mina Loy Hugh MacDiarmid Archibald MacLeish Louis MacNeice...
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from the 1914 poem "The Congo", by Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay. Condemning Leopold's actions, Lindsay wrote: Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost, Burning...
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titles beginning with Bryan "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan", a 1919 poem by Vachel Lindsay Bryan Inc. (2015 TV series) construction and renovation TV series starring...
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December 2 – Vincent d'Indy, French composer (b. 1851) December 5 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) December 9 – Antonio Salandra, Italian statesman...
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Atkinson wrote in his review "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is...
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idioms. DuBois sees the poem as a dramatic song that is a precursor for Vachel Lindsay. DuBois makes comparisons to jazz music and places the poem in the style...
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Theodore Dreiser, Shirley Ann Grau, Dashiell Hammett, Langston Hughes, Vachel Lindsay, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, John Updike, and Knopf's own favorite...
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historians; there is no contemporary documentation of the remark.: 521 Vachel Lindsay, a popular poet of the time, is known to have referred to the film as...
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