Carl (August) Sandburg Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 18 pages of information about the life of Carl (August) Sandburg.

Carl (August) Sandburg Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 18 pages of information about the life of Carl (August) Sandburg.
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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 biographer, a wandering troubadour with a guitar, a midwest Hans Christian Andersen, or a historian of current events ...." He was seventy-two in 1950 and "still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns .... I have forgotten the meaning of twenty or thirty of my poems written thirty or forty years ago. I still favor several simple poems published long ago which continue to have an appeal for simple people."

Sandburg wrote a landmark six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. A consummate platform performer, he roamed the United States for nearly a half century, guitar in hand, collecting and singing American folk songs. For his own children and children everywhere he wrote Rootabaga Stories (1922) and Rootabaga...

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