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Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)

Auteur van Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg

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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. toon meer 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) toon minder
Fotografie: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
Photograph by New York World-Telegram & Sun
staff photographer, Al. Ravenna, 1955
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

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Selected Poems (2001) 191 exemplaren
Selected Poems (1996) 185 exemplaren
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Remembrance Rock (1948) 142 exemplaren
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The People, Yes (1936) 132 exemplaren
Always the Young Strangers (1636) 125 exemplaren
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More Rootabaga Stories (1923) 115 exemplaren
Abraham Lincoln (1926) 114 exemplaren
Prairie-Town Boy (1955) 101 exemplaren
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (2006) 85 exemplaren
The American Mercury Reader (1943) — Medewerker — 77 exemplaren
Cornhuskers (1918) 66 exemplaren
Early Moon (1930) 61 exemplaren
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1995) 57 exemplaren
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The Letters of Carl Sandburg (1968) 33 exemplaren
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Arithmetic (1993) 30 exemplaren
Breathing Tokens (1978) — Auteur — 27 exemplaren
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Officiële naam
Sandburg, Carl August
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
SANDBURG, Carl August
SANDBURG, Carl
Geboortedatum
1878-01-06
Overlijdensdatum
1967-07-22
Graflocatie
Remembrance Rock, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
natural causes
Woonplaatsen
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Harbert, Michigan, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA (toon alle 8)
Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
Connemara, Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Opleiding
Lombard College
Beroepen
dichter
schrijver
biograaf
redacteur
verslaggever
columnist (toon 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
Relaties
Steichen, Edward (zwager)
Sandburg, Helga (dochter)
Steichen, Paula (kleindochter)
Organisaties
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 (toon alle 7)
Chicago Daily Times
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
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 (toon 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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