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Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
"Chicago" is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry , March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled "Chicago Poems". It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems .
Chicago Poems established Sandburg as a major figure in contemporary literature. [5] Chicago Poems , and its follow-up volumes of verse, Cornhuskers (1918) and Smoke and Steel (1920) represent Sandburg's attempts to found an American version of social realism, writing expansive verse in praise of American agriculture and industry.
Poetry portal; These poets have won the American Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, awarded since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American writer, or one of the 1918 and 1919 special awards that the organization now considers the first Poetry Pulitzers.
“Prairie” appears in Carl Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of 103 poems, Cornhuskers, published in 1918. Opening with “I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me a song and a slogan,” the narrator offers a vivid description of the prairie land with its lively ...
Carl Sandburg received the award in 1960. Leonard Bernstein received the award in 1962. Charles Laughton received the award in 1963. Edward R. Murrow received the award in 1967. Martin Luther King Jr. won the award posthumously in 1971 for Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam. Richard Harris won the award in 1974. Peter Cook & Dudley Moore won the ...
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The Letters of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt Brace, 1968). The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1969). Ever the Winds of Chance (University of Illinois Press, 1983). Carl Sandburg at the Movies (Scarecrow Press, 1985). The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg (University of Illinois Press ...