Vachel Lindsay introduced a genuinely new rhythm into American
poetry and was America's first real folk poet--superior to Sandburg
and articulating a sense of awe, loss and resentment at the passing
of the older freedoms and dignities of pre industrial America. His
topics (Negro revivals, Salvation Army meetings, Chautauqua
gatherings) would seem to be utterly dated---yet Lindsay was a
modernist in spite of himself and influenced greatly later poets
and writers as dis separate as Hart Crane, Edgar Lee Masters,
Robert Frost, James T Farrell and William Faulkner as well as Jack
Kerouac. Professor Rogal argues it was Lindsay's vision of the
American Midwest heartland and its people than informed and
empowered Lindsay's greatest poetry. And his performance skills
enhanced his poetry during his short vagabond lifetime. "... This
work argues for the continuing importance of Vachel Lindsay...the
author certainly puts forth a strong case for the poet's importance
to the American poetic tradition and that tradition's inherent
bardic energies and geomancy" Professor T. Badin. D/American
Literature, Zagreb University
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