The First Phase of Poetic Development of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

Authors: Ashok Kumar

Country: India

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Abstract: After Walt Whitman and the New Englanders, American poetry lay in doldrums. Although a poet of great caliber like Vachel Lindsay had started even before the turn of the century, but no one knew about him or had heard of anything about a New Poetry movement till Hariet Monroe printed “General William Booth Enters Into Heaven” in “Poetry’ for January 1913. It was then that the people learned that a new wind was blowing, and that one poet at least had been swept into an unplugged sea. Lindsay was the first to feel the breeze coming and a soon as he sniffed it he cracked on all sail. Of all captains of the New Poetry Movement he was the real ‘driver’ from first to last. This was the group that revitalized the whole of American letters and gave American poetry the second of its great epochs second chronologically but by no means certainly second in artistic achievement of social significance.

Keywords: Doldrums, Fundamentalist

Paper Id: 1657

Published On: 2021-07-10

Published In: Volume 9, Issue 4, July-August 2021

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