City of Discontent
Download or Read eBook City of Discontent PDF written by Mark Harris and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Mark Harris |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : 0252061802 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780252061806 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis City of Discontent by : Mark Harris
Book excerpt: When City of Discontent was first published, it bore the subtitle "An interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that state, and that nation." But the book is, like Carl Sandburg's Lincoln, not so much a biography as a poetic interpretation of the life of one of the state's leading poets of the first half of the century. "A lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves to be remembered. . . . A book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and not soon forget." -- Library Journal