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Born in November 10, 1879 / Died in December 5, 1931 / United States / English

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BOOKS

  • Aiken, Conrad, Skepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry, Knopf (New York, NY), 1919, pp. 155-59.
  • Chesterton, G. K., All I Survey, Methuen (London), 1933, pp. 37-42.
  • Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Volume 2:Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917, Gale (Detroit), 1988, pp. 244-69.
  • Davison, Edward, Some Modern Poets and Other Critical Essays, Harper (New York, NY), 1928, pp. 219-55.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 54: American Poets, 1880-1945, Third Series, Gale, 1987, pp. 207-45.
  • Diggory, Terence, Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self, Princeton University Press, 1983, pp. 59-86.
  • Duffey, Bernard, The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters: A Critical History, Michigan State College Press (East Lansing), 1954.
  • Engler, Balz, Poetry and Community, Stauffenburg (Tubingen), 1990.
  • Filler, Louis, editor, A Question of Quality: Popularity and Value in Modern Creative Writing, Bowling Green University Popular Press (Bowling Green, OH), 1976, pp. 124-47.
  • Flanagan, John Theodore, compiler, Profile of Vachel Lindsay, Merrill (Columbus, OH), 1970.
  • Garland, Hamlin, Companions on the Trail: A Literary Chronicle, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1931, pp. 462-71.
  • Graham, Stephen, Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies, D. Appleton (New York, NY), 1922.
  • Hallwas, J. E., and D. J. Reader, compilers, The Vision of This Land: Studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg, Western Illinois University Press (Macomb), 1976, pp. 17-54.
  • Harris, Mark, City of Discontent: An Interpretive Biography of Vachel Lindsay, Being also the Story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and the Love of the Poet for That City, That State, and That Nation, Bobbs-Merrill (New York, NY), 1952, Octagon Books, 1975.
  • Jones, Llewellyn, First Impressions: Essays on Poetry, Criticism, and Prosody, Knopf, 1925, pp. 85-96.
  • Kramer, Dale, Chicago Renaissance: The Literary Life in the Midwest, 1900-1930, Appelton-Century, 1966.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, Adventures while Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, M. Kennerly (New York, NY), 1914.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, Letters of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay to A. Joseph Armstrong, edited by A. J. Armstrong, Baylor University Press, 1940.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, Through a Poet's Eyes, Marshall Mitchell Printing, Inc., 1957.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, Adventures, Rhyme and Design: Early Writings, introduction by Robert F. Sayre, Eakins, 1968.
  • Lindsay, Vachel, Letters of Vachel Lindsay, edited by Marc Chenetier, B. Franklin (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Massa, Ann, Vachel Lindsay: Fieldworker for the American Dream, illustrations by Lindsay, Indiana University Press (Bloomington), 1970.
  • Masters, Edgar Lee, Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America, Scribner (New York, NY), 1935.
  • Mencken, H. L., Vachel Lindsay: The True Voice of Middle America, [Washington, DC], 1947.
  • Monroe, Harriet, Poets and Their Art, revised and enlarged edition, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1932.
  • Munson, Gorham B., Destinations: A Canvass of American Literature since 1900, J. H. Sears (New York, NY), 1928, pp. 67-74.
  • Perkins, David, A History of Modern Poetry from the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1976, pp. 348-362.
  • Phelps, William Lyon, The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, Dodd (New York, NY), 1918, pp. 213-44.
  • Purkey, Raymond, Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), A.-G. Nizet (Paris), 1968.
  • Ruggles, Eleanor, The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay, Norton (New York, NY), 1959.
  • Schroeder, Ralph, Where a Lad Is: An Account of Vachel Lindsay, Syracuse University Library (Syracuse, NY), 1962.
  • Scouffas, George, Vachel Lindsay: A Study in Retreat and Repudiation, Urbana, 1951.
  • South, Eudora Lindsay, From the Lindsay Scrapbook: Cousin Vachel, J. A. Blair (Lafayette, IN), 1978.
  • Trombly, A. E., Vachel Lindsay: An Adventurer, Lucas Brothers (Columbia, MO), 1929.
  • Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Volume 17, Gale, 1985, pp. 220-49.
  • Untermeyer, Louis, The New Era in American Poetry, Scholarly Press, 1970, pp. 65-93.
  • Van Doren, Carl, Many Minds, Knopf, 1924, pp. 151-66.
  • West, Herbert Faulkner, George Matthew Adams Vachel Lindsay Collection: A Note and Descriptive List, Dartmouth College, 1945.
  • Weston, Mildred, Vachel Lindsay: Poet In Exile, Ye Galleon Press (Fairfield, WA), 1987.
  • Whipple, Thomas K., Spokesmen, University of California Press (Berkeley), 1963, pp. 184-207.
  • Wolfe, Glenn Joseph, Vachel Lindsay: The Poet as Film Theorist, Arno Press (New York, NY), 1973.
PERIODICALS
  • American Literature, January, 1948.
  • American Mercury, August, 1912, pp. 422-24.
  • American Scholar, Autumn, 1993, p. 565.
  • Baylor Bulletin, September, 1940, pp. 1-121.
  • Bookman, January, 1918, p. 575.
  • College Literature, fall, 1985, pp. 233-44.
  • Collier's Weekly, September 6, 1913, pp. 7-8.
  • Commonweal, February 10, 1932, pp. 409-11.
  • Courier, December, 1962, pp. 13-16.
  • Current Literature, March, 1911, pp. 320-23.
  • Current Opinion, September, 1920, pp. 371-73.
  • Dial, October 16, 1914, pp. 281-83; November, 1923, pp. 498-505.
  • Elementary English Review, May, 1932.
  • English Journal, December, 1969, pp. 1338-40.
  • English Studies, Volume 32, numbers 1-6, 1951, pp. 241-49.
  • Forum, November, 1935, pp. 266-67.
  • Freeman, October 17, 1923, p. 139.
  • Frontier and Midland, March, 1934, pp. 212-16.
  • Harper's, September, 1915, p. 636.
  • Horizon, winter, 1967, pp. 112-15.
  • Indiana, May 19, 1910, p. 1086; January 12, 1914, p. 72.
  • Indiana University Bookman, December, 1960, pp. 12-106.
  • Journal of American Studies, October, 1968, pp. 239-52.
  • Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Number 57, pp. 366-79.
  • Ladies' Home Journal, March, 1928, p. 22.
  • Latin Quarterly, autumn, 1934, pp. 128-40.
  • Literary Digest, May 15, 1920, p. 43; February 20, 1926, p. 50; March 5, 1932, p. 18.
  • Literary Review, May 24, 1924, p. 779.
  • Living Age, February 28, 1920, pp. 553-54.
  • Magazine of Art, August, 1938, pp. 450-56.
  • Michigan Quarterly Review, summer, 1982, pp. 479-85.
  • Modern Age, summer, 1960, pp. 269-84.
  • Nation, November 5, 1914, p. 555; April 16, 1924, pp. 439-40; October 23, 1935, p. 477; November 28, 1959, pp. 404-5.
  • New Republic, December 5, 1914, p. 26; December 25, 1915, p. 201; November 18, 1916, pp. 6-7; February 11, 1920, pp. 321-22; October 5, 1927, p. 52; December 25, 1935, pp. 194-95.
  • New York Call, May 23, 1920, p. 10.
  • New York Herald Tribune Books, November 15, 1959, p. 1.
  • New York Review of Books, September 26, 1991, p. 11.
  • New York Times, November 8, 1914, p. 489; December 19, 1926, p. 2; June 17, 1979, p. D23.
  • New York Times Book Review, May 16, 1920, p. 251; December 8, 1935, pp. 5 and 26; December 6, 1959, pp. 4 and 67; December 23, 1979, pp. 9, 17-18.
  • Outlook, August 10, 1921, pp. 574-75; July 18, 1923, p. 432.
  • Pacific Spectator, summer, 1949, pp. 338-53.
  • Poet Lore, Volume 46, number 1, 1940, pp. 88-92.
  • Poetry, January, 1913; April, 1914, pp. 29-30; May, 1920, pp. 101-4; February, 1921, pp. 262-66; May, 1924, pp. 90-95; January, 1927, pp. 217-21; March, 1936, pp. 337-44.
  • Quarterly Journal of Speech, April, 1947, pp. 182-95.
  • Research Studies, March, 1957, pp. 101-10; September, 1962, pp. 109-14.
  • Review, May 15, 1920, p. 518.
  • Saturday Evening Post, November 13, 1926, pp. 12-13 and 45-47.
  • Saturday Review, November 21, 1959, p. 39; August 26, 1961, pp. 5-6; December 7, 1968, p. 41.
  • Saturday Review of Literature, January 9, 1932, p. 44B; November 25, 1933, p. 293; August 10, 1935, pp. 3-4; September 28, 1935, p. 7; August 10, 1940, p. 7; October 20, 1945, pp. 47-49.
  • Scholastic, February 25, 1946, p. 15.
  • Serif, June, 1971, pp. 9-11.
  • Shane Quarterly, April-July, 1944.
  • South Atlantic Quarterly, July, 1933, pp. 266-82.
  • Springfield Republican, October 15, 1914, p. 5.
  • Survey, December 5, 1914, p. 267; October 15, 1921, pp. 73-74.
  • Time, October 7, 1935; November 23, 1959, p. 110.
  • Times Literary Supplement, January 29, 1920, p. 64; March 17, 1927, p. 187.
  • Touchstones, February, 1918, pp. 510-12.
  • University of Kansas City Review, October, 1958, pp. 13-17.
  • Western Illinois Regional Studies, spring, 1979, pp. 70-88; fall, 1979, pp. 156-72.
  • Yale Review, October, 1920, p. 203; April, 1927, pp. 587-91; summer, 1943, pp. 191-92.
OBITUARIES
  • American Mercury, April, 1932, pp. 455-62.
  • Bookman, January, 1932, p. 244.
  • Christian Century, December 23, 1931, pp. 1585-86.
  • Commonweal, December 23, 1931, p. 200.
  • Literary Digest, December 26, 1931, p. 19.
  • Poetry, January, 1932, pp. 206-12.
  • Publishers Weekly, December 12, 1931, pp. 2585-86.
  • Saturday Review of Literature, December 12, 1931, p. 368; January 9, 1932, p. 437.
  • Spectator, January, 1932, p. 104.