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Quotations
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Carl Sandburg Quotes
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Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer and folklorist. Sourced Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and...


Biography

Name: Carl Sandburg
Birth Date: January 6, 1878
Death Date: July 22, 1967
Place of Birth: Galesburg, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: Flat Rock, North Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, biographer, singer

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Biography of Carl Sandburg
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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" verse celebrations of Chicago. The legend of Carl...
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Biography of Carl Sandburg
6,307 words, approx. 21 pages
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 biographer, a wandering troubadour with a guitar, a...
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Biography of Carl Sandburg
4,630 words, approx. 15 pages
"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 those who look through to guess about what is seen...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) Summary
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A maverick son of Swedish immigrant parents, Carl Sandburg became one of America's best loved poets, as well as one of its most significant. However, he was also a journalist, storyteller, balladeer, and noted biographer of Abraham Lincoln, and...
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Carl Sandburg Information
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Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois of Swedish parents. He lived in the midwest, primarily Chicago, and in 1945 moved to a...


News and Journals
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University Wire
BOOK REIVEW: Carl Sandburg's 'Poems for Children...'
05/12/1999: 615 words, approx. 2 pages
University Wire 05-12-1999 (Chicago Maroon) (U-WIRE) CHICAGO, Ill. -- As the introduction to Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote states, "Poets are sometimes forgetful. They write poems and, if these verses are ahead of their time or quite unlike their other...
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University Wire
Sandburg's lost writing finds home with U. Illinois prof
04/23/1999: 851 words, approx. 3 pages
Jared Peterson University Wire 04-23-1999 (Daily Illini) (U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Though Carl Sandburg died 32 years ago, his poems continue to be published with the help of University of Illinois English professor George Hendrick and his wife, Willene. Sandburg, famous poet and...
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Star tenor Jerry Hadley on life support
7/12/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley remained hospitalized Thursday for a gunshot wound police said was self-inflicted.Hadley created the title role in composer John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the lead in Paul McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio." Leonard Bernstein chose him to...
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AP Features
Star tenor Jerry Hadley on life support after apparent suicide attempt, police said
7/12/2007: 372 words, approx. 1 pages
Celebrated tenor Jerry Hadley remained hospitalized Thursday for a gunshot wound police said was self-inflicted.Hadley created the title role in composer John Harbison's "The Great Gatsby" at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the lead in Paul McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio." Leonard Bernstein chose him to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Gay Wilson Allen
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In the following essay, Wilson details Sandburg's life and literary career, citing significant developments in his later poetry.
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Critical Essay by Anne-Marie Brumm
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In the following essay, Brumm enumerates leitmotifs—including the innocent child, victimized maiden, and death—in Sandburg's Chicago Poems.
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Critical Essay by Chris Beyers
7,851 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Beyers links Chicago Poems to poetic tradition, observing that in many cases Sandburg modernized older forms in his verse.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Idealism of Sandburg
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Sandburg's idealism and influence by Whitman
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"Grass" by Carl Sandburg
789 words, approx. 3 pages
In his poem "Grass," Carl Sandburg emphasizes the need to remember the people who have died in war for the cause of freedom and chastizes those who go about their daily lives taking their freedom for granted. The straightforward statements in the poem portray the author's disappointment of those who would forget, and Sandburg implores the reader to remember those lives lost in conflict.
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An Analysis of Carl Sandburg Poems
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Analyzes a selection of Carl Sandburg poems, including Fog and Chicago. Provides biographical detail on the American poet.
 


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