Carl Sandburg - (1878-1967)
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I. Biographical Information Carl Sandburg was born January 6, 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois. Sandburg was a very hard worker, even at a young age. At the age of thirteen he quit school so that
he could help to support his family. Sandburg attended Lombard collage in Galesburg, Illinois. Then in 1910, Sandburg married Lilian Paula Steichen.
Sandburg's writing career started in 1912 when he was transferred to Chicago, where he became the editor of System a business magazine. A few years later, a few of Sandburg's
poems where published in a Chicago literary magazine called Poetry. This magazine awarded him with the Levinson Prize for his poem Chicago.
Sandburg was a great novelist, folklorist, historian and American poet. Sandburg won many prizes for his works. On July 22, 1967, at the age of 89, Sandburg died in Flat Rock, North Carolina. II. Works by Carl Sandburg Poetry Nonfiction Fiction For Children
III. Hendersonville Carl Sandburg is most associated with Hendersonville, North Carolina because he lived there. Hendersonville is on a plateau around 2,200 feet above sea level. The city is 40 miles
north of Spartanburg, North Carolina and 22 miles away from Asheville. Hendersonville is at the southern edge of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Hendersonville has a
population of nine thousand , five hundred and thirty eight (9,538) people. The mayor of this city is Fred H. Niehoff, Jr. IV. Carl Sandburg's Poems
The poems that Carl Sandburg writes are about the unfairness of life in the time period in which he wrote them. The poems he wrote described the way of life, the places we go, and
death. They tell of the city's, poverty, factories, the war, death and the people in general. He describes the topics of his poems concisely but with so much detail they are seen in
your mind as clearly as if you had experienced it yourself. His poems express feelings of sadness and of the hopelessness of living at the time he wrote his poems. Not all of his poems were sad; some, like his poem Happiness
, show the good parts in life. Carl Sandburg's way of writing was to give you the idea or feeling he tried to get across without telling you in exact words. He showed you the way he was feeling instead of telling you.
V. Sandburg on the Web Web sites we found with information on Carl Sandburg are listed below.
Chicago Poems (1916)
Cornhuskers (1918)
Smoke and Steel (1920)
Slabs of the Sunburst West (1922)
Good Morning, America (1928)
The People, Yes (1936)
Poems of the Midwest (1946)
The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1950)
Harvest Poems (1960)
Honey and Salt (1963)
Breathing Tokens (edited by Margaret Sandburg, 1978)
Billy Sunday and Other Poems (edited by George and Willene Hendrick, 1993)
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg (edited by George and Willene Hendrick, 1996)
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (two volumns, 1926)
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (four volumns, 1939)
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (one volumn edition, 1954)
Always the Young Strangers (1953)
The American Songbag (1927)
The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 Home Front Memo (1943)
The Letters of Carl Sandburg (edited by Herbert Mitgang)
A Lincoln Preface (1953)
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (Part two by Paul m. Angle, 1932)
The Sandburg Range (1957)
Steichen the Photographer (1929)
Storm over the Land (1942)
Remembrance Rock (1948)
Abe Lincoln Grows Up Arithmetic Early Moon (1930)
More Rootabagas (1993)
Potato Face (1930)
Prairie-Town Boy (1955)
Rainbows Are Made Rootabaga Pigeons (1923)
Rootabaga Stories (1922)
The Sandburg Treasury The Wedding Procession of the Rag doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It Wind Song (1960)
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This essay was submitted by students of Leslie Andres, a teacher at Lake Norman Charter School in Huntersville, North Carolina.