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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 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.
A vinyl LP of Carl Sandburg reading some of his poems, Carl Sandburg reading Fog and other poems was released on Caedmon (TC 1253) in 1968. Description: 2s. : 33 1 ⁄ 3 rpm, stereo; 12in. Reviewed: J. R. S. (March 1969). "Reviewed work: Recordings from Caedmon. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience. Carl Sandburg Reading "Fog" and Other Poems". The ...
Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times from 1924 to 1943. Edwin Arlington Robinson won three prizes during the 1920s and several people, all male, have won two. Carl Sandburg won one of the special prizes for his poetry in 1919 and won the Poetry Pulitzer in 1951.
The "Rootabaga" stories were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so set his stories in a fictionalized American Midwest called "the Rootabaga country" with fairy-tale concepts such as corn fairies mixed with farms, trains, sidewalks, and skyscrapers.
"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 .
Pages in category "Poetry by Carl Sandburg" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Chicago (poem)
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 ...