Author:Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
(1879–1931)

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American poet; considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted

Works

The art of the moving picture (1916)
Adventures while preaching the gospel of beauty (1916)
The Golden Book of Springfield (1920)
The Litany of Washington Street (1929)

Poetry

The Congo, and other poems (1915)
- The Congo
General William Booth enters into Heaven, and other poems (DjVu) (1916)
The Chinese Nightingale, and other poems (1920)
The golden whales of California: and other rhymes in the American language (1920)

Anthologized

From A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917):
- "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
- "Niagara"
From American Poetry 1922:
- "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed"
- "I Know All This When Gipsy Fiddles Cry"

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1931, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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