The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

New York: Macmillan Company, 1917.

Price: $2,500.00

Hardcover. First edition. A trifle rubbed, very near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Susan E. Wilcox with the constant affection and admiration of Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. November 17, 1917. Springfield, Illinois." Wilcox was Lindsay's English teacher at Springfield High School, and to whom (according to his biographer Edgar Lee Masters): "he was attached for life, calling her his best and most understanding friend," and who was probably the first and greatest influence on him as a poet.

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Item #97394 The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems. Vachel LINDSAY.

Vachel Lindsay
birth name: Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
born: 11/10/1879
died: 12/5/1931
nationality: USA

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American poet who - in an attempt to revive poetry as an oral art form of the common people - wrote and read to audiences compositions with powerful rhythms that had an immediate appeal. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore