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Vachel Lindsay was born on 10 November 1879 in Springfield, United States. His father, Vachel Thomas Lindsay, worked as a medical doctor.
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Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was the most intensely romantic US poet of his generation. Less well known is the fact that Lindsay was also a radical critic of the white supremacy, greed, misery, brutality, ugliness and emptiness inherent in US capitalist culture. His only novel, The Golden Book - now back in print after over 80 years of shameful neglect - is a relentless dreamer's all-out assault on the stupidity and bigotry of Main Street USA. Linsay's Luciferian lyricism, incantatory and even shamanic; the carnivalesque enthusiasm and humor that he called the 'higher vaudeville'; and of course that zany, jubilant, self-contradictory mysticism that was all his own are amply evident in this radically nonconformist dram of the future. In The Golden Book, the coffee houses, movie theaters, streets and parks of Springfield in the 'Mystic Year' 2018 are the setting for a valiant struggle to transform a village dominated by shady politicians, lynch-mobs, commercialism and cocaine into a new paradise. Ron Sakolsky's superb introduction, the most detailed examination yet of Lindsay's 'Johnny Appleseed utopianism', explores The Golden Book as a radical response to the Springfield Race Riot of 1908; relates the book to the utopias of Fourier, Ruskin, Bellamy, and others; and traces Lindsay's involvement in Chicago radicalism in the 1910s, as well as his affinities with anarchism, feminism, Black liberation, the IWW, and such poet radicals as Blake, Lautreamont, the surrealists, Langston Hughes and the Beats.
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Vachel Lindsay was born on 10 November 1879 in Springfield, United States. His father, Vachel Thomas Lindsay, worked as a medical doctor.
Lindsay studied at Hiram College in Ohio, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York School of Art.
Vachel Lindsay lived as a modern-day troubadour, selling poems and drawings as he traveled.
Lindsay's poetry exuded patriotic and democratic exuberance and optimism. He was hailed by many contemporary poets, particularly Edgar Lee Masters and Amy Lowell, and contemporary critics saw him as an exemplar of the "New Poetry. "
The book The Congo appeared in 1914 and The Chinese Nightingale in 1917. Lindsay's all-inclusiveness might have surprised even Emerson and Whitman-concerned as both were with writing the poem that expressed all of multitudinous America.
With lilting freshness the poem "Kalamazoo" manages to find beauty and romance in the awkward common-places of American life, and in its conclusion identifies a lovestruck midwestern girl with the legendary Helen of Troy.
Although Lindsay often resorted to flat statement in his poems about God's immanence, parts of "Johnny Appleseed" are among his best work.
However, the rhythms of "General Booth" and "The Congo" tend to become tire-some, and even the best of Lindsay's work tends toward doggerel.
But his celebrations of America and its people remain unsurpassed in their genre (for example, "The Golden Whales of California, " "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, " and "The Eagle That Is Forgotten").
Lindsay's collected poems appeared in 1938. His letters are also important (edited by A. J. Armstrong, 1940), and the autobiographical Adventures while Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (1914) and A Handy Guide for Beggars (1916) give further insight into the man.
After a prolonged period of insanity, he committed suicide in New York.
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Lindsay's Swedenborgian religious background was strengthened by his personal rediscovery of the 18th-century Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenbo
Though Lindsay's work was in vogue for a while during his lifetime, he was an odd man, subject to fits of melancholy.
On 19 May 1925 Vachel Lindsay married 23-year-old Elizabeth Connor. She bore him daughter in May 1926 and son in September 1927.
