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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

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The son of Swedish immigrants, Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois. At age 13 he left school to roam the Midwest; he remained on the road for six years, working as a day laborer. Sandburg served in the Spanish-American War and then, from 1898 to 1902, attended Lombard College in Galesburg. vis mere After college, he went to Milwaukee, where he worked as a journalist; he also married Lillian Steichen there in 1908. During World War I, he served as a foreign correspondent in Stockholm; after the war he returned to Chicago and continued to write about America, especially the common people. Sandburg's first poems to gain wide recognition appeared in Poetry magazine in 1914. Two years later he published his Chicago Poems (1916), and Cornhuskers appeared in 1918. Meanwhile, Sandburg set out to become an authority on Abraham Lincoln (see Vol. 3). His exhaustive biography of the president, which took many years to complete, appeared as Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 vols., 1926) and Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (4 vols., 1939), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Sandburg's poetry is untraditional in form. Drawing on Whitman as well as the imagists, its rhymeless and unmetered cadences reflect Midwestern speech, and its diction ranges from strong rhetoric to easygoing slang. Although he often wrote about the uncouth, the muscular, and the primitive, there was a pity and loving kindness that was a primary motive for his poetry. At Sandburg's death, Mark Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, and President Lyndon Johnson delivered eulogies. In his tribute, President Johnson said that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America. . . . He gave us the truest and most enduring vision of our own greatness." The N.Y. Times described Sandburg as "poet, newspaper man, historian, wandering minstrel, collector of folk songs, spinner of tales for children, [whose] place in American letters is not easily categorized. But it is a niche that he has made uniquely his own." Sandburg was the labor laureate of the United States. Sandburg received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1951 for his Complete Poems (1950). Among his many other awards were the gold medal for history and biography (1952) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the Poetry Society of America's gold medal (1953) for distinguished achievement; and the Boston Arts Festival Award (1955) in recognition of "continuous meritorious contribution to the art of American poetry." In 1959 he traveled under the auspices of the Department of State to the U.S. Trade Fair in Moscow, and to Stockholm, Paris, and London. In 1960 he received a citation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a great living American for the "significant and lasting contribution which he has made to American literature." (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems (1916) 585 eksemplarer
Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1926) 579 eksemplarer
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1950) 453 eksemplarer
Rootabaga Stories (1922) 430 eksemplarer
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 (1960) 346 eksemplarer
Honey and Salt (1953) 294 eksemplarer
Lincoln's Devotional (1957) 254 eksemplarer
Storm Over the Land (1942) 203 eksemplarer
The American Songbag (1927) 196 eksemplarer
Rootabaga Stories: Part One (1973) 191 eksemplarer
Selected Poems (2001) 190 eksemplarer
Selected Poems (1996) 181 eksemplarer
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg (1777) 157 eksemplarer
Remembrance Rock (1948) 139 eksemplarer
Rootabaga Stories: Part Two (1974) 136 eksemplarer
The People, Yes (1936) 132 eksemplarer
Always the Young Strangers (1636) 124 eksemplarer
Abraham Lincoln (1926) 114 eksemplarer
More Rootabaga Stories (1923) 113 eksemplarer
Wind Song (1960) 112 eksemplarer
Prairie-Town Boy (1955) 99 eksemplarer
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (2006) 83 eksemplarer
The American Mercury Reader (1943) — Bidragyder — 76 eksemplarer
Cornhuskers (1918) 64 eksemplarer
Early Moon (1930) 59 eksemplarer
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1995) 56 eksemplarer
Billy Sunday And Other Poems (1993) 55 eksemplarer
Grassroots (1998) 55 eksemplarer
The Sandburg range (1925) 48 eksemplarer
Poems of the Midwest (1946) 47 eksemplarer
Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg (2017) 36 eksemplarer
The Letters of Carl Sandburg (1968) 32 eksemplarer
The Chicago race riots, July, 1919 (1969) 31 eksemplarer
Arithmetic (1993) 29 eksemplarer
Lincoln's Daily Devotional (2015) 28 eksemplarer
Breathing Tokens (1978) — Forfatter — 28 eksemplarer
Never Kick a Slipper at the Moon (2008) 20 eksemplarer
Steichen the photographer (1929) 19 eksemplarer
Rootabaga Pigeons (1923) 18 eksemplarer
Poems for the People (1999) 18 eksemplarer
Smoke and Steel (1920) 16 eksemplarer
Good Morning America (1928) 15 eksemplarer
The Fiery Trial (1959) 13 eksemplarer
A Lincoln preface (1953) 13 eksemplarer
Home Front Memo (1943) 13 eksemplarer
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) 12 eksemplarer
Fables, Foibles, and Foobles (1988) 10 eksemplarer
Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) 8 eksemplarer
Rootabaga Country (1929) 7 eksemplarer
Potato Face (1930) 5 eksemplarer
Historias del país de Rutabaga (1922) 5 eksemplarer
Carl Sandburg 4 eksemplarer
Runoja 4 eksemplarer
Sandburg Out Loud (2006) 4 eksemplarer
Poemas de Chicago (2003) 2 eksemplarer
“Chicago” 2 eksemplarer
Dikter i urval 2 eksemplarer
Bronze Wood 2 eksemplarer
Carl Sandberg 1 eksemplar
Honey and Salt 1 eksemplar
Elm Buds 1 eksemplar
Early Moon 1 eksemplar
Address 1 eksemplar
Wild Song 1 eksemplar
Selected Poems (1926) 1 eksemplar
Válogatott versek 1 eksemplar
Incidentals (2010) 1 eksemplar
Vida Inovieta 1 eksemplar
Versuri 1 eksemplar
Cool Tombs [poem] 1 eksemplar
Abraham Lincoln: (1984) 1 eksemplar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Easton Press (1984) 1 eksemplar
Carl Sandburg 1 eksemplar
Sandburg Poetry 1 eksemplar
Antologia poetica 1 eksemplar

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A Treasury of American Folklore (1944) — Forord, nogle udgaver752 eksemplarer
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Bidragyder — 537 eksemplarer
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (1954) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver435 eksemplarer
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The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (1993) — Bidragyder — 359 eksemplarer
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Bidragyder — 330 eksemplarer
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A Treasury of Poetry for Young People (2008) — Bidragyder — 196 eksemplarer
Literary history of the United States (1946) — Bidragyder — 189 eksemplarer
The New Junior Classics Volume 08: Stories From History (1938) — Bidragyder — 189 eksemplarer
The New Junior Classics Volume 02: Stories of Wonder and Magic (1912) — Bidragyder — 187 eksemplarer
This Is My Best (1942) — Bidragyder — 181 eksemplarer
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Bidragyder — 160 eksemplarer
Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (1946) — Forord — 151 eksemplarer
America's Historylands: Touring Our Landmarks of Liberty (1962) — Bidragyder — 146 eksemplarer
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Bidragyder — 127 eksemplarer
American Indian Poetry (1918) — Oversætter — 124 eksemplarer
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 02: Once Upon a Time (1957) — Bidragyder — 117 eksemplarer
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Bidragyder — 110 eksemplarer
The Imagist Poem (1963) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver98 eksemplarer
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
Storytelling and Other Poems (Childcraft) (1949) — Bidragyder — 89 eksemplarer
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Bidragyder — 83 eksemplarer
Abe Lincoln in Illinois: A Play in Twelve Scenes (1939) — Forord, nogle udgaver72 eksemplarer
Best Loved Books for Young Readers 04 (1831) — Forfatter — 68 eksemplarer
Reader's Digest Great Stories for Young Readers (1969) — Bidragyder — 66 eksemplarer
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Sky Magic: Poems (2009) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Bidragyder — 38 eksemplarer
Summer: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2005) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
Herds of Thunder, Manes of Gold (1989) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
We, Robots (2010) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany (2007) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 6, February 1976 — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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The World's Best Stories for Boys and Girls: Second Series (1930) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar

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Juridisk navn
Sandburg, Carl August
Andre navne
SANDBURG, Carl August
SANDBURG, Carl
Fødselsdato
1878-01-06
Dødsdag
1967-07-22
Begravelsessted
Remembrance Rock, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Køn
male
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Dødssted
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Dødsårsag
natural causes
Bopæl
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Harbert, Michigan, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA (vis alle 8)
Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
Connemara, Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Uddannelse
Lombard College
Erhverv
dichter
schrijver
biograaf
redacteur
verslaggever
columnist (vis alle 22)
docent
milk-delivery boy
barber shop porter
fireman
truck operator
house painter
bricklayer
farm laborer
hotel servant
coal-heaver
children's author
movie reviewer
editorial writer
historian
folklorist
folk singer
Relationer
Steichen, Edward (zwager)
Sandburg, Helga (dochter)
Steichen, Paula (kleindochter)
Organisationer
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1933])
US Army (6th Illinois Infantry ∙ Spanish American War)
Social Democratic Party
Cliff Dwellers
Chicago Daily News
Chicago Times Syndicate (vis alle 7)
Chicago Daily Times
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2011)
Levinson Prize
Friend of American Writers award
Phi Beta Kappa
Theodore Roosevelt distinguished service medal (vis alle 20)
American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal for history
Poetry Society of America gold medal
Taminent Institution award
Commander Order of the North Star, Sweden
New York Civil War Round Table silver medal
University of Louisville award of merit
Albert Einstein award, Yeshiva College
Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Cup
International Poet's Award
Ph.D., Uppsala University, 1948
LL.D., Rollins College, 1941
LL.D., Augustana College, 1948
LL.D., University of Illinois, 1953
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Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
 
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Presents Sandburg's fanciful, humorous tales peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others. This second volume of unique fairy tales includes stories originally published in 1923. Each reflects the warmth of a midwestern childhood, a zest for life, and a love of the American language that has never been equaled.
 
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