Author: LINDSAY, NICHOLAS VACHEL
Title: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems
Description: New York: Macmillan Company, 1919. Early printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION - signed by the author's son, Nicholas Cave Lindsay. This is an early reprint (trade) edition of this book which was originally published by Mitchell Kennerley in 1913. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a small edge nick / tear to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed and dated, with an address, on the title page. " He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His extensive correspondence with the poet Yeats details his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practiced by the ancient Greeks. Because of his identity as a performance artist and his use of American Midwest themes, Lindsay became known in the 1910s as the "Prairie Troubador." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Family Member. Very Good .
Keywords: Poetry Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Signed Editions Music Lyrics Nicholas Cave Lindsay
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Title: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems
Description: New York: Macmillan Company, 1919. Early printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION - signed by the author's son, Nicholas Cave Lindsay. This is an early reprint (trade) edition of this book which was originally published by Mitchell Kennerley in 1913. The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a small edge nick / tear to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed and dated, with an address, on the title page. " He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted. His extensive correspondence with the poet Yeats details his intentions to revive the musical qualities in poetry as had been practiced by the ancient Greeks. Because of his identity as a performance artist and his use of American Midwest themes, Lindsay became known in the 1910s as the "Prairie Troubador." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Family Member. Very Good .
Keywords: Poetry Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Signed Editions Music Lyrics Nicholas Cave Lindsay
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 43903
- Book number: 43903
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