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Vachel Lindsay
Lindsay in 1913
Lindsay in 1913
BornNovember 10, 1879
Springfield, Illinois, United States
DiedDecember 5, 1931(1931-12-05) (aged 52)
Springfield, Illinois, United States
OccupationPoet

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (/ˈvəl ˈlɪnzi/; November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.

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Vachel Lindsay

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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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Vachel Lindsay House

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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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George Mather Richards

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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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Edgar Lee Masters

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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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Johnny Appleseed

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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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The Golden Book of Springfield

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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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Robert Frost

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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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Sara Teasdale

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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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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

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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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William Booth

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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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Busser

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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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Indian summer

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"Our Indian Summer". Robert William Service wrote "My Indian Summer". Vachel Lindsay wrote "An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie". William Wilfred Campbell's...

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Spoken word

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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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New Picnic Time

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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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The Birth of a Nation

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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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I Am Canadian

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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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1931

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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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The Music Man

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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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Bryan

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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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Poetry reading

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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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