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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 ...
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 ...
"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 .
I removed "Grass" from the list of Sandburg's works. The title and date were absolutely correct, but the rest of the list is of anthologies, biographies, and novels, and it seemed inappropriate to the list to add a single poem title.
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The American Songbag is an anthology of American folksongs compiled by the poet Carl Sandburg and published by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1927. It was enormously popular [1] and was in print continuously for more than seventy years. [2] Melodies from it were used in Alec Wilder's Names from the War (1961).
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 ...