TY - ABST T1 - "Formula For a Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Brief poem describing the characteristic boys and girls should have. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “The Woman Called ‘Beauty’”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 132.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Woman Called 'Beauty' and Her Seven Dragons A Poem for Those Who Desire an Aesthetic Utopia" Y1 - 1925 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Poem with fairly vague suggestions of a eutopia of art that will set humanity free to be fully human.  See also 1909, 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 Lindsay, “Formula For a Utopia”.

JF - The Little Magazine VL - 3rd imprint N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 125-27. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Golden Book of Springfield. Being the review of a book that will appear in the autumn of the year 2018, and an extended description of Springfield, Illinois, in that year Y1 - 1920 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia set in 2081 in Springfield, Illinois with a world-renowned University of Springfield at its core. Much on mysticism but some on the social system. Racial intermarriage. Drugs. A world government that is not presented entirely positively. Refers to 1919 Cram. See also 1909, 1913, 1914, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

PB - Macmillan CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1999 with an "Introduction" by Ron Sakolsky (xi-cxvii). See "The Golden Book of Springfield Containing a Brief Prospectus of a Book With Wings That Will Appear in Various Forms in Springfield, November, A.D. 2018." The Little Magazine 2nd imprint (1920) and 3rd imprint (1925): Both 109-24.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "An Argument" Y1 - 1914 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The argument is between "The Voice of the Man Impatient with Visions and Utopias" and "The Rhymer's Reply: Incense and Splendor" and is presented as two poems under those titles. The former takes an anti-utopian position, and the latter replies with the hope for a coming eutopia. See also 1909, 1913, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

JF - The Congo and Other Poems PB - Macmillan Co. CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 194-95. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit Y1 - 1913 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopian broadside with short poems and illustrations, each illustation depicting "the censers of angels" swinging over a Springfield, Illinois landmark. The eutopia suggests a socialist Illinois. See also 1909, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay

PB - Author CY - Springfield, IL N1 -

Rpt. in his A Letter About My Four Programmes for Committees in Correspondence (Springfield, IL: Jefferson Printing Co., [1917]), 15-32. Also rpt. in his The Little Magazine both 2nd (1920) and 3rd (1925) imprints (49-64); and in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 197-212.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Golden-Faced People. A Story of Chinese Conquest of America" Y1 - 1909 A1 - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia. Satire on U.S. race relations seen through the eyes of a white American subservient to the Chinese. See also 1913, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.

JF - War Bulletin, no. 1 (July 19, 1909): Reprint no. 3 N1 -

Rpt. in The Crisis (November 1914): 36-42; and in The Prose of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed. Dennis Camp (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1988), 1: 85-93.

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