SOURCE: Mieder, Wolfgang. “Behold the Proverbs of a People: A Florilegium of Proverbs in Carl Sandburg's Poem ‘Good Morning, America.’” Southern Folklore Quarterly 35 (1971): 160-68.
In the following essay, Mieder studies Sandburg's use and manipulation of American proverbs in his poem “Good Morning, America.”
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