Sep 25, 2008
Amazon:
Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity
(Paperbound)
A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity, by Vachel Lindsay.
True story. In 1906, young poet Vachel Lindsay wanders through a dozen states, with no money and no baggage, staying with random strangers, reciting poetry and teaching "The Gospel of Beauty." So, what do you suppose that was like? Wonder why this book was popular in the 1960s & '70s?
Part 1.4 -- "The Gnome" and "The Tramps Refusal."
Music by Kevin MacLeod.
A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity, by Vachel Lindsay.
True story. In 1906, young poet Vachel Lindsay wanders through a dozen states, with no money and no baggage, staying with random strangers, reciting poetry and teaching "The Gospel of Beauty." So, what do you suppose that was like? Wonder why this book was popular in the 1960s & '70s?
Part 1.4 -- "The Gnome" and "The Tramps Refusal."
Music by Kevin MacLeod.
That\'s one wild \"gnome\", with his \"gnome language\". :)
The best phrase in this one is : \"We ate with manly leisure\". What a picture that paints!
Unexpectedly in a poet, the man could manage to -not- take himself seriously, when that was what was called for. Nice.