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The Daniel jazz and other poems / by Vachel Lindsay.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Twist, D. N. (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 94 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed at The Westminster Press, Harrow Road.
- Other Title:
- Daniel Jazz
- Place of Publication:
- London : G. Bell & Sons, MCMXX [1920]
- Contents:
- The Daniel Jazz
- The golden whales of California
- Bryan, Bryan
- A rhyme for all Zionists
- The sea serpent chantey
- For all who ever sent lace valentines
- To Eve, man's dream of wifehood as described by Milton
- The Congo
- The Santa-Fe Trail
- I head Immanuel singing
- The North Star whispers to the blacksmith's son
- Factory windows are always broken
- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight
- Our mother Pocahontas
- Niagara
- The drunkard's funeral
- The ghosts of the buffaloes
- John Brown
- How Samson bore away the gates of heaven
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- " ... The present volume contains a careful selection of his [the author's] best and most characteristic work - much of which, it should be noted, should be declaimed if its full force is to be perceived."--Publisher's Note.
- Yellow cloth boards lettered in black on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has label of W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., Booksellers, Cambridge, England.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph "From D. N. Twist (?), Xmas '26.
- OCLC:
- 2192362
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