With a preface by HARRIET MONROE, Editor of the _Poetry Magazine_.
_Cloth, 12mo, $1.25; leather, $1.60_
In the readings which Vachel Lindsay has given for colleges,
universities, etc., throughout the country, he has won the approbation
of the critics and of his audiences in general for the new verse-form
which he is employing, as well as the manner of his chanting and
singing, which is peculiarly his own. He carries in memory all the
poems in his books, and recites the program made out for him; the
wonderful effect of sound produced by his lines, their relation to the
idea which the author seeks to convey, and their marvelous lyrical
quality are quite beyond the ordinary, and suggest new possibilities
and new meanings in poetry. It is his main object to give his already
established friends a deeper sense of the musical intention of his
pieces.
The book contains the much discussed “War Poem,” “Abraham Lincoln Walks
at Midnight”; it contains among its familiar pieces: “The Santa Fe
Trail,” “The Firemen’s Ball,” “The Dirge for a Righteous Kitten,” “The
Griffin’s Egg,” “The Spice Tree,” “Blanche Sweet,” “Mary Pickford,”
“The Soul of the City,” etc.
=Mr. Lindsay received the Levinson Prize for the best poem
contributed to _Poetry_, a magazine of verse, (Chicago) for 1915.=
“We do not know a young man of any more promise than Mr. Vachel
Lindsay for the task which he seems to have set himself.”--_The Dial._