Vachel lindsay biography summary worksheets

          Vachel Lindsay who was born here on Nov. 10, , lived in this house most of his life until he died here in Vachel's mother taught him to read from.

        1. Sandburg's multi-volume biography is probably his best-known work, and he also wrote a number of poems on the meaning of Lincoln's life and work.
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        3. This poem depicts Africans in the Congo as savage and barbaric.
        4. Vachel Lindsay himself was something of an anachronism.

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          Vachel Linday's Life

          Joseph G. Kronick.

          Lindsay, Vachel (10 Nov. 1879-5 Dec. 1931), writer, was born Nicholas Vachel Lindsay in Springfield, Illinois, the son of Vachel Thomas Lindsay, a physician, and Esther Catherine Frazee.

          The Lindsays were devout Campbellites, a church founded in 1830 by the immigrant Scotch-Irish clergyman Alexander Campbell, whose emphasis on individual spiritual life, education, the missionary role of American democracy, and the hope for a nondenominational Christian church had a profound impact upon Lindsay, shaping his career as poet, pamphleteer, and performer.

          From 1897 to 1899 Lindsay attended a Campbellite school, Hiram College in Ohio, but he never took a degree. There he kept notebooks and diaries, a practice he had begun when he was seven and continued throughout his life. He headed each diary with "This book belongs to Christ," consecrating himself to a lifelong project of spreading what he called "the gospel of beauty&q