The Little Turtle
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Poet Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931
Subjects Nature, Pets, Relationships, Animals
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Biography
Vachel Lindsay became famous in his day as a traveling bard whose dramatic delivery in public readings helped keep appreciation for poetry as a spoken art alive in the American Midwest. With their strong rhythms rooted in the American vernacular, revival meetings, the soap box, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe and William Blake, poems such as "The Santa Fe Trail," "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," and "The Congo" have become . . .
Poems by Vachel Lindsay
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SUBJECT Nature, Pets, Relationships, Animals
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