Vachel Lindsay [SEP] manner of death
declaring himself to be a product of what he termed 'Higher Vaudeville':
"I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe..." (Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters 1935, page 62) This is evidenced by the 1931 recording he made just before his suicide, his still-radical performances of 'The Mysterious Cat', 'The Flower-Fed Buffaloes' and parts of 'The Congo' exhibiting a fiery and furious, zany,
extensively and wrote a biography of Lindsay in 1935 (four years after its subject's death) entitled "Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America".
Lindsay himself indicated in the 1915 preface to "The Congo" that no less a figure than William Butler Yeats respected his work. Yeats felt they shared a concern for capturing the sound of the primitive and of singing in poetry. In 1915, Lindsay gave a poetry reading to President Woodrow Wilson and the entire Cabinet.
Later years Marriage, children and financial troubles.