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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.

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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.

by Vachel Lindsay

EN·~3 hours·5 chapters

Chapters

5 total

A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS

0:54

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

0:39

DEDICATION AND PREFACE OF A HANDY GUIDE FOR BEGGARS

4:13

I VAGRANT ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH

1:46:47

II A MENDICANT PILGRIMAGE IN THE EAST

1:37:02

Description

A tongue‑in‑cheek manual for the wayward poet, this lively travelogue turns the hardships of poverty into a series of half‑serious lessons. The narrator roams from Florida to Pennsylvania, cataloguing odd jobs, midnight meals and spontaneous hospitality while spelling out a “handy guide” of rules that celebrate neatness, civility and the “Gospel of Beauty.” The tone is wry and conversational, inviting listeners to follow a wanderer who trades cash for chance encounters and poetic inspiration.

Interspersed with vivid sketches—a freight‑car ride through Georgia, a wild bath beneath Tallulah Falls, an uncanny moonshiner gnome, and a mountain‑top lady who treats the traveler like royalty—the stories feel like episodic postcards from the road. Each episode is laced with humor and a hint of philosophy, suggesting that even in destitution there is room for dignity, wit, and a little rebellion against the ordinary.

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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. 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.

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~3 hours (201K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: The MacMillan Company, 1916.

Credits

D A Alexander, David E. Browm, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was created from images of public domain material made available by the University of Toronto Libraries.)

Release date

2022-04-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67947

Subjects

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 -- Travel -- United States PS

About the author

Vachel Lindsay

1879–1931

A restless, theatrical poet, he tried to bring verse off the page and back into the human voice. His chants, performances, and vivid rhythms made him one of the most distinctive American poets of the early 20th century.

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