When was carl sandburg born

Sandburg sold stereoscope views and wrote poetry for two years before his first book of verse, In Reckless Ecstasy , was printed on Wright's basement press in As the first decade of the century wore on, Sandburg grew increasingly concerned with the plight of the American worker.

In he worked as an organizer for the Wisconsin Social Democratic party, writing and distributing political pamphlets and literature. At party headquarters in Milwaukee, Sandburg met Lilian Steichen, whom he married in The responsibilities of marriage and family prompted a career change. Sandburg returned to Illinois and took up journalism. For several years he worked as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News, covering mostly labor issues and later writing his own feature.

Sandburg was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in , a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Two years later his book Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would bring him international acclaim.

Sandburg published another volume of poems, Cornhuskers, in , and wrote a searching analysis of the Chicago race riots. Others did most of the work on these last. In Lincoln's birthday was celebrated in Washington by a solemn gathering of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Eisenhower cabinet, and the diplomatic corps. The choice of Sandburg as chief speaker for the occasion constituted a unique honor.

In he went on a mission to Russia for the Department of State. After settling in North Carolina his most extensive publications were a huge panoramic novel Remembrance Rock and the autobiographical Always the Young Strangers , one of his best books.

The reaction to the novel was at best merely polite. But a first novel by a man seventy years old, planned to be a movie "spectacular" intended to arouse a sense of patriotism, can hardly be expected to lay a claim to immortality. It was only during his last few years that he did not have a finger in some sort of project.

When death came, the tributes were front-page items. After a family service at Flat Rock conducted by a Unitarian clergyman, his body was cremated and the ashes were buried at Galesburg. In a special ceremony held in Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, President Johnson spoke of him as "the echo of the people. In Sandburg sold his papers, proofs, and library to the University of Illinois.

To date this collection lacks his own letters, a selection from which, however, was indifferently edited by Herbert Mitgang Highway Historical Marker P, N.

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If you would like a reply by email, note that some email servers, such as public school accounts, are blocked from accepting messages from outside email servers or domains. If you prefer not to leave an email address, check back at your NCpedia comment for a reply. The ending of the poem is similar to the style of Walt Whitman — : "When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the lessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year, who played me for a fool—then there will be no speaker in all the world say the name: 'The People,' with any fleck of a sneer in his voice or any far-off smile of derision [ridicule].

The mob—the crowd—the mass—will arrive then. Sandburg's early poetry not only tended toward unshaped imitation of real life but also copied other poets as well. Eliot's — "The Love Song of J.

Alfred Prufrock," which had appeared the year before "Fog" was published. Seventy-three previously uncollected Sandburg poems from the s can be found in Poems for the People From to Sandburg devoted himself mainly to writing the six-volume biography of President Abraham Lincoln, presenting Lincoln as a symbol of the American spirit; Sandburg received a Pulitzer Prize in history for this work He also collected the folk songs that made up The American Songbook Honey and Salt , a remarkable achievement for a "part-time" poet in his eighties, contains much of Sandburg's best poetry.

Here the mellowness and wisdom of age are evident, and the poems are more effective than his earlier verse. By this time Sandburg had developed and begun to express a deeply felt sympathy and concern for actual people. Tenderness replaces sentimentality; controlled feelings replace defensive "toughness. Sandburg also collected folk songs and toured the country singing his favorites. He established his reputation with Chicago Poems , and then Cornhuskers , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in Soon after the publication of these volumes Sandburg wrote Smoke and Steel , his first prolonged attempt to find beauty in modern industrialism.

With these three volumes, Sandburg became known for his free verse poems that portrayed industrial America. In the twenties, he started some of his most ambitious projects, including his study of Abraham Lincoln. From childhood, Sandburg loved and admired the legacy of President Lincoln. For thirty years he sought out and collected material, and gradually began the writing of the six-volume definitive biography of the former president.

These later volumes contained pieces collected from brief tours across America which Sandburg took each year, playing his banjo or guitar, singing folk-songs, and reciting poems. He received a second Pulitzer Prize for his Complete Poems in His final volumes of verse were Harvest Poems, and Honey and Salt Carl Sandburg died on July 22, John the Divine in New York in National Poetry Month.