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
century.
"A lively, swift-moving, sympathetic story of a man who deserves
to be remembered. . . . A book people will enjoy, and suffer over, and
not soon forget."
-- Library Journal
- ISBN10 0252061802
- ISBN13 9780252061806
- Publish Date 1 January 1993 (first published 1 May 1990)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English