This author helped Langston Hughes becomefamous by trumpeting his discovery of Hughes in a Washington D.C. restaurant.
This author wrote "To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name" in his elegy upon thedeath of John Altgeld, "The Eagle That is Forgotten." This author helped Langston Hughes becomefamous by trumpeting his discovery of Hughes in a Washington D.C. restaurant. However, this poetwas accused of racism for writing a poem which repeats the refrain "Mumbo-jumbo will (*) hoo-dooyou" and describes the title river "creeping through the black / cutting through the jungle with a goldentrack." Another of this author's poems repeatedly asks "Are you washed in the blood of the lamb?" anddescribes the founder of the Salvation Army arriving in Paradise. For 10 points, name this American poetwho wrote "The Congo" and "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven."
This author wrote "To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name" in his elegy upon thedeath of John Altgeld, "The Eagle That is Forgotten."
Vachel Lindsay [or Nicholas Vachel Lindsay]