Mr. Lindsay received the Levinson Prize for the best poem contributed to 'Poetry', a magazine of verse, (Chicago) for 1915.
"We do not know a young man of any more promise than Mr. Vachel Lindsay for the task which he seems to have set himself."—'The Dial'.
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems
Price, $1.25; leather, $1.60
This book contains among other verses: "On Reading Omar Khayyam
during an Anti-Saloon Campaign in Illinois"; "The Wizard Wind";
"The Eagle Forgotten", a Memorial to John P. Altgeld;
"The Knight in Disguise", a Memorial to O. Henry; "The Rose and the
Lotus"; "Michaelangelo"; "Titian"; "What the Hyena Said"; "What Grandpa
Mouse Said"; "A Net to Snare the Moonlight"; "Springfield Magical";
"The Proud Farmer"; "The Illinois Village"; "The Building of
Springfield".
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Comments on the Title Poem:
"This poem, at once so glorious, so touching and poignant in its conception and expression … is perhaps the most remarkable poem of a decade—one that defies imitation."—'Review of Reviews'.
"A sweeping and penetrating vision that works with a naive charm….
No American poet of to-day is more a people's poet."—'Boston
Transcript'.
"One could hardly overpraise 'General Booth'."—'New York Times'.
"Something new in verse, spontaneous, passionate, unmindful of conventions in form and theme."—'The Living Age'.