A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity

A Handy Guide for Beggars: Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity - 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.

There are one hundred new poets in the villages of the land. This Handy Guide is dedicated first of all to them. It is also dedicated to the younger sons of the wide earth, to the runaway boys and girls getting further from home every hour, to the prodigals who are still wasting their substance in riotous living, be they gamblers or blasphemers or plain drunks; to those heretics of whatever school to whom life is a rebellion with banners; to those who are willing to accept counsel if it be mad counsel. This book is also dedicated to those budding philosophers who realize that every creature is a beggar in the presence of the beneficent sun, to those righteous ones who know that all righteousness is as filthy rags. Moreover, as an act of contrition, renlistment and fellowship this book is dedicated to all the children of Don Quixote who see giants where most folks see windmills: those Galahads[viii] dear to Christ and those virgin sisters of Joan of Arc who serve the lepers on their knees and march in shabby armor against the proud, who look into the lightning with the eyes of the mountain cat. They do more soldierly things every day than this book records, yet they are mine own people, my nobler kin to whom I have been recreant, and so I finally dedicate this book to them. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67947
Author: Lindsay, Vachel
Release Date: Apr 29, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The MacMillan Company
Publication Date: 1916
Publisher Country: United States