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
By Vachel Lindsay
With an introduction by
Harriet Monroe
Editor of "Poetry"
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 antipodal poets soon appeared in person among the earliest
visitors to the editor.
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