Yeats singled out the 34-year-old Springfield poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, who had tramped across the country preaching his "Gospel of Beauty" and trading his poems for lodging and food. Monroe made sure Yeats read Lindsay's "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" in the latest edition of Poetry. Enchanted, Yeats called the hobo poet to the fore, and Lindsay responded with a widow-rattling performance of his epic, ragtime "The Congo." Chicago's grande dames rushed to embrace him, inaugurating a vogue for Lindsay's poetry that would tragically fade out after World War I.from Chicago: Poetry Foundation Stages 'Meet Mr. Yeats'
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