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"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.
Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry, such as "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and The Day Book. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling ...
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). According to the musicologist ...
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 ...
"City of Big Shoulders" is a nickname coined by Carl Sandburg in his 1914 poem "Chicago," which describes the city as "stormy, husky, [and] brawling." It is the last of several nicknames in the poem; the others hint at the city's major industrial activities, for example, the meat-packing industry and railroad industry. [11]
She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which she established in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Max Michelson and others, Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Her correspondence with early ...