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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.
Robert Frost, Poetry; Eugene O'Neill, Drama; Robert E. Sherwood, Drama (3) and Biography; Three prizes. Edward Albee, Drama; Archibald MacLeish, Poetry (2) and Drama; Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poetry (3) Carl Sandburg, Poetry (2) and History; Robert Penn Warren, Poetry (2) and Fiction; Thornton Wilder, Drama (2) and the Novel; Two prizes
Harriet Monroe, founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, wrote in an editorial (Apr.-Sept., 1922), "The award of a Pulitzer Prize of one thousand dollars to the Collected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson is a most agreeable surprise, as this is the first Pulitzer Prize ever granted to a poet.
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.
Stan Freberg was the first recipient of the award in 1959. 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.
"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 .
Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day, or Warren’s blackin’ or Rowland’s oil, or some o’ them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy. ”
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.