Works Cited and Selected Bibliography
Brenner, Rica. Poets of Our Time. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941.
Canby, Henry Seidel. American Memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947.
Chénetier, Marc. "Vachel Lindsay's American Mythology and Some Unpublished Sources." The Vision of This Land: Studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg. Ed. John E. Hallwas and Dennis J. Reader. Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1976. 41-54.
[Du Bois, W. E. B.] "The Looking Glass: Literature." Crisis 12.4 (Aug. 1916): 182-83.
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. "'HOO, HOO, HOO': Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Whiteness." American Literature 67 (1995): 667-700.
Engler, Balz. Poetry and Community. Tübingen, Germany: Stauffenburg, 1990.
Ginsberg, Allen. Kaddish. San Francisco: City Lights, 1961.
Gray, Paul H. "Performance and the Bardic Ambition of Vachel Lindsay." Text and Performance Quarterly 9 (1989): 216-23.
Gubar, Susan. Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. "Wind from the Prairie," New York Review of Books 26 Sep. 1991: 9-16.
Hummer, T. R. "Laughed Off: Canon, Kharakter, and the Dismissal of Vachel Lindsay." Kenyon Review 17.2 (Spring 1995): 56-96.
Jones, Llewellyn. First Impressions: Essays on Poetry, Criticism, and Prosody. 1925. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries, 1968.
"Judges for the Contest." Opportunity 3 (Nov. 1925): 340.
Lindsay, Vachel. Collected Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
----------. "The Jazz Bird." Press release. [May.] Hermann Hagedorn Collection, Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Vigilantes Press Releases, ca. May 1918.
---------. Letters of Vachel Lindsay. Ed. Marc Chénetier. New York: Burt Franklin, 1979.
----------. Poetry. Sound recording. Caedmon, 1967. TC 1216.
----------. The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay, Complete and with Lindsay's Drawings. 2 vols. Ed. Dennis Camp. Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry, 1984-86.
----------. The Prose of Vachel Lindsay, Complete and with Lindsay's Drawings. 2 vols. Ed. Dennis Camp. Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry, 1988.
Lindsay, Vachel, and Joel E. Spingarn. "A Letter and an Answer," The Crisis 13.3 (Jan. 1917): 113-14:
Nielsen, Aldon. Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1988.
Rampersad, Arnold. I, Too, Sing America: The Life of Langston Hughes. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
Ruggles, Elizabeth. The West-Going Heart: A Life of Vachel Lindsay. New York: Norton, 1959.
Sayre, Robert F. "Vachel Lindsay: An Essay." Adventures Rhymes and Designs. Ed. Robert F. Sayre. New York: Eakins, 1968.
Ward, John Chapman. "Vachel Lindsay Is 'Lying Low.'" College Literature 12 (1985): 233-45.
----------. "Walking to Wagon Mound: Composing 'Booth.'" Western Humanities Review 40.3 (Autumn 1986): 230-44.
Wentworth, Michael. "' Walk Through the Paradise Garden': Vachel Lindsay's Idea of Kansas in Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty." Midamerica 20 (1993): 26-39.
White, William. "Lindsay/Masters/Sandburg: Criticism from 1950-1975." The Vision of This Land: Studies of Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg. Ed. John E. Hallwas and Dennis J. Reader. Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1976. 114-28.
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