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"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These adventures convey and illustrate the rules of beggary for poets and some others." Published in 1919, this is poet Vachel Lindsay's description of his travels "afoot and penniless" across the southern and eastern United States, staying with strangers, reciting or trading poetry for dinner, and along the way, describing in stories and poetry, ...
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Part 2.13, "A Mendicant Pilgrimage in the East." Includes "The Old Gentleman with the Lantern," part 8, and "That Men Might See Again the Angel Throng."And that's the end of the book. Now I'll be sad for a while, I think. And then find another book. What adventure awaits? "God help us to be brave."Music by Kevin MacLeod.…
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A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity, byVachel Lindsay. True story. In 1906, young poet Vachel Lindsay wanders through a dozen states, with no money and no baggage, staying with random strangers, reciting poetry and teaching "The Gospel of Beauty." So, what do you suppose that was like? Wonder why this book was popul…
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