The Congo and Other Poems

By Vachel Lindsay

With an introduction by
Harriet Monroe
Editor of "Poetry"





Introduction. By Harriet Monroe



When `Poetry, A Magazine of Verse', was first published in Chicago
in the autumn of 1912, an Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay,
was, quite appropriately, one of its first discoveries.
It may be not quite without significance that the issue of January, 1913,
which led off with `General William Booth Enters into Heaven',
immediately followed the number in which the great poet of Bengal,
Rabindra Nath Tagore, was first presented to the American public,
and that these two antipodal poets soon appeared in person among the earliest
visitors to the editor. For the coming together of East and West