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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

FRIENDS CALLED HIM Charlie or Sandy. He was the shy yet ambitious teenage son of hard-working, dirt poor Swedish immigrants, and had been born right there in the little prairie town of Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878. Although he completed the eighth grade, he...

Byline: Matt Stacionis Daily Herald Correspondent Elgin Community College pitcher Chris Schultz did not start the ninth inning under the best of circumstances. The Elgin High product allowed Carl Sandburg College's Brian Fanetti and Brandon Oelman to start the inning off...

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...

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...

In the following essay, Wilson details Sandburg's life and literary career, citing significant developments in his later poetry.

In the following essay, Brumm enumerates leitmotifs—including the innocent child, victimized maiden, and death—in Sandburg's Chicago Poems.

In the following essay, Beyers links Chicago Poems to poetic tradition, observing that in many cases Sandburg modernized older forms in his verse.

Sandburg's idealism and influence by Whitman

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.

Analyzes a selection of Carl Sandburg poems, including Fog and Chicago. Provides biographical detail on the American poet.