Lellets of VL: Vachel Lindsay.

"Live like the Sparrow": Vachel Lindsay's Whitman

“…36 As Massa points out, Yanks appealed to Lindsay because "it had no pretensions (as he apparently thought Whitman did) to be aesthetic and stoical; it had a ring of sincerity which he found lacking in Whitman." 37 In his critical notice, Lindsay goes so far as to say that the anthology "delivers us from Whitman, thank God! If you really want American poetry, I suggest that you forget Whitman a moment and read Yanks" (244).…”