Biography EssayAmerican poet and biographer Carl Sandburg sketched a revealing portrait of himself in the preface to his Complete Poems (1950): "there was a puzzlement," he said, "as to whether I was...
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An American poet, anthologist, singer of folk songs and ballads, and biographer, Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his magnificent biography of Abraham Lincoln and his early "realistic" vers...
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"Poetry," wrote Carl Sandburg in his Good Morning, America, "is a pack-sack of invisible keepsakes. Poetry is a sky dark with wild-duck migration. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving ...
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The historical writings of Carl Sandburg were the most important twentieth-century factor in Abraham Lincoln's continuing popularity. Sandburg's massive Lincoln biography was an immediate sensation, a...
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American poet and biographer Carl Sandburg sketched a revealing portrait of himself in the preface to his Complete Poems (1950): "there was a puzzlement," he said, "as to whether I was a poet, a bio...
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
Carl (August) Sandburg
