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Title: The Congo and Other Poems

Author: Vachel Lindsay

Posting Date: July 23, 2008 [EBook #1021]
Release Date: August, 1997

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS

By Vachel Lindsay

[Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, Illinois Artist. 1879-1931.]

With an introduction by Harriet Monroe Editor of "Poetry"

[Notes: The 'stage-directions' given in "The Congo" and those
poems which are meant to be read aloud, are traditionally printed to the
right side of the first line it refers to. This is possible, but
impracticable, to imitate in a simple ASCII text. Therefore these
'stage-directions' are given on the line BEFORE the first line they
refer to, and are furthermore indented 20 spaces and enclosed by #s to
keep it clear to the reader which parts are text and which parts
directions.]

[This electronic text was transcribed from a reprint of the original
edition, which was first published in New York, in September, 1914. Due
to a great deal of irregularity between titles in the table of contents
and in the text of the original, there are some slight differences from
the original in these matters--with the more complete titles replacing
cropped ones. In one case they are different enough that both are
given, and "Twenty Poems in which...." was originally "Twenty Moon
Poems" in the table of contents--the odd thing about both these titles
is that there are actually twenty-TWO moon poems.]

THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS

Introduction. By Harriet Monroe

When 'Poetry, A Magazine of Verse', was first published in Chicago in
the autumn of 1912, an Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay, was, quite
appropriately, one of its first discoveries. It may be not quite without
significance that the issue of January, 1913, which led off with
'General William Booth Enters into Heaven', immediately followed the
number in which the great poet of Bengal, Rabindra Nath Tagore, was
first presented to the American public, and that these two antipoda