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8 unusual facts about Vachel Lindsay


Discover Odin

The final track is a recording of a poem read by its author Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931).

John Bunny

In The Art of the Moving Picture (1915), American poet and early film critic Vachel Lindsay considered Bunny to be the greatest of the early screen comedians.

John Russell, 4th Earl Russell

Married on 28 August 1946 to Susan Doniphan Lindsay, daughter of the poet Vachel Lindsay, he had two daughters, Lady Sarah Elizabeth Russell, born on 16 January 1946, and Lady Lucy Catherine Russell (21 July 1948 – 11 April 1975), neither of whom married or bore children.

New Picnic Time

The lyrics for the song "The Voice Of The Sand" are based upon the poetry of Vachel Lindsay.

Scarab Club

The ceiling beams of the lounge once served as the club's guest book, and poet Vachel Lindsay signed as one of the first visitors.

The Daniel Jazz

A short vocal work suitable for performance by schoolchildren, with music by Herbert Chappell and lyrics by Vachel Lindsay(Publisher: Novello,1963; ISBN 0-85360-318-9; ISBN 978-0-85360-318-4).

Vachel Lindsay

His 1915 book The Art of the Moving Picture is generally considered the first book of film criticism, according to critic Stanley Kauffmann, discussing Lindsay in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.

The poem was inspired by a sermon preached in October 1913 that detailed the drowning of a missionary in the Congo River; this event had drawn worldwide criticism, as had the colonial exploitation of the Congo under the government of Leopold II of Belgium.


James Oppenheim

Notable writers who contributed to the magazine under his guidance included Sherwood Anderson, Van Wyck Brooks, Max Eastman, Robert Frost, D.H. Lawrence, Vachel Lindsay and Amy Lowell.

Stanley Kauffmann

Kauffmann was featured in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism where he was shown discussing the beginnings of film criticism in America, and noting the important contributions of poet Vachel Lindsay, who grasped that "the arrival of film was an important moment in the history of human consciousness".


see also

Achsah Barlow Brewster

The Brewsters were remarkable in numbering among their circle of friends many prominent artistic, literary and political figures, including D.H. Lawrence and Willa Cather, both of whose writings they influenced, Elihu Vedder, Vachel Lindsay and three generations of the Nehru family.