Vachel Lindsay

Vachel Lindsay was born in 1879 in Springfield, Illinois. He gave up medicine to study art in Chicago and then in New York. Between 1906 and 1912, he made three long walks across the country, exchanging his poems for food and lodging and handing out to farmers a sheet he called the gospel of beauty. He then lived mostly from his public readings and in 1915 published the first American book to treat cinema as an art. Exhausted by touring, in debt and depressed, he took his own life in Springfield in 1931.

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• PoetryGeneral William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other PoemsVachel Lindsay · 1913LiteraturePublic domain