Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) was an American poet who is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he termed it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. He was born and grew up in Springfield, Ill., studied medicine at Ohio's ...
"In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."
--Stanley Kauffmann
Written in 1915, The Art of the Moving Picture by poet Vachel Lindsay is the firs...
" ...] While Chang, with a countenance carved of stone, Ironed and ironed, all alone. And thus she sang to the busy man Chang: "Have you forgotten.... Deep in the ages, long, long ago, I was your sweetheart, there on the sand- Storm-worn beach of the...
" ...]of conventional form: if both were more free, more individual, than their contemporaries, this was the expression of their Americanism, which may perhaps be defined as a spiritual independence and love of adventure inherited from the pioneers. ...