Collected Poems

"Collected Poems"

Vachel Lindsay's Are Weapons of a Spiritual War

The Contents. In An Autobiographical Foreword* the poet (whose personality is probably better known to a larger number of more diverse audiences than that of any other living American bard) devotes 28 pages to reminiscences of his youth, answering with kindly humor the thousand-and-one foolish questions any writer of prominence is always asked about himself and his work, and attacking the popular newspaper legend that pictures him as a noisy apostle of poetical jazz. He explains his...

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