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 twentieth century.
Read More
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 twentieth century.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Stated first edition. Binding solid. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged, but endpages darker and front pastedown has stain. Green cloth cover with a little wear to edges, but otherwise okay. No dustjacket.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. 403pp. Light toning on endpapers, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with foxing on both sides, and tiny chips and tears at the spine ends. The author's second book, a biography of Vachel Lindsay.