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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. visa mer 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) visa färre
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Verk av Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems (1916) 602 exemplar
Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1926) 592 exemplar
Sagor från Rotabagga (1922) 441 exemplar
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 (1960) 352 exemplar
Honey and Salt (1953) 296 exemplar
Lincoln's Devotional (1957) 256 exemplar
Storm Over the Land (1942) 208 exemplar
The American Songbag (1927) 199 exemplar
Rootabaga Stories: Part One (1973) 193 exemplar
Selected Poems (2001) 191 exemplar
Selected Poems (1996) 185 exemplar
Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg (1777) 157 exemplar
Remembrance Rock (1948) 142 exemplar
Rootabaga Stories: Part Two (1974) 136 exemplar
The People, Yes (1936) 132 exemplar
De unga främlingarna (1636) 125 exemplar
Wind Song (1960) 116 exemplar
More Rootabaga Stories (1923) 115 exemplar
Abraham Lincoln (1926) 114 exemplar
Prairie-Town Boy (1955) 101 exemplar
Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (2006) 85 exemplar
The American Mercury Reader (1943) — Bidragsgivare — 77 exemplar
Cornhuskers (1918) 66 exemplar
Early Moon (1930) 61 exemplar
Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1995) 57 exemplar
Grassroots (1998) 56 exemplar
Billy Sunday And Other Poems (1993) 55 exemplar
The Sandburg range (1925) 49 exemplar
Poems of the Midwest (1946) 47 exemplar
Poetry for Kids: Carl Sandburg (2017) 40 exemplar
The Letters of Carl Sandburg (1968) 33 exemplar
Lincoln's Daily Devotional (2015) 31 exemplar
Arithmetic (1993) 30 exemplar
Breathing Tokens (1978) — Författare — 27 exemplar
Steichen the photographer (1929) 20 exemplar
Poems for the People (1999) 18 exemplar
Rootabaga Pigeons (1923) 18 exemplar
Smoke and Steel (1920) 16 exemplar
Good Morning, America (1928) 15 exemplar
A Lincoln preface (1953) 13 exemplar
Home Front Memo (1943) 13 exemplar
The Fiery Trial (1959) 13 exemplar
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) 12 exemplar
Fables, Foibles, and Foobles (1988) 10 exemplar
Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) 8 exemplar
Rootabaga Country (1929) 7 exemplar
Potato Face (1930) 5 exemplar
Sandburg Out Loud (2006) 4 exemplar
Runoja 4 exemplar
Carl Sandburg 4 exemplar
Poemas de Chicago (2003) 2 exemplar
Abraham Lincoln: (1984) 2 exemplar
“Chicago” 2 exemplar
Bronze Wood 2 exemplar
Dikter i urval 2 exemplar
Wild Song 1 exemplar
Carl Sandberg 1 exemplar
Wind Song 1 exemplar
Honey and Salt 1 exemplar
Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg (2004) — Kompositör — 1 exemplar
Elm Buds 1 exemplar
Address 1 exemplar
The Fog 1 exemplar
Early Moon 1 exemplar
Selected Poems (1926) 1 exemplar
Válogatott versek 1 exemplar
Incidentals (2010) 1 exemplar
Vida Inovieta 1 exemplar
Versuri 1 exemplar
Cool Tombs [poem] 1 exemplar
Carl Sandburg 1 exemplar
Sandburg Poetry 1 exemplar
Antologia poetica 1 exemplar
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Easton Press (1984) 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Sandburg, Carl August
Andra namn
SANDBURG, Carl August
SANDBURG, Carl
Födelsedag
1878-01-06
Avled
1967-07-22
Begravningsplats
Remembrance Rock, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Dödsort
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Dödsorsak
natural causes
Bostadsorter
Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Harbert, Michigan, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA (visa alla 8)
Elmhurst, Illinois, USA
Connemara, Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA
Utbildning
Lombard College
Yrken
dichter
schrijver
biograaf
redacteur
verslaggever
columnist (visa alla 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 (visa alla 7)
Chicago Daily Times
Priser och utmärkelser
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 (visa alla 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
United States Postal Service stamp

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Det är inte svårt att se var Carl Sandburgs sympatier låg i Chicago poems: hos massorna, människorna som var dag sliter sina kroppar för att i bästa fall kunna få ut några droppar lycka på kvällen, en stund med dragspel och dans eller en båtfärd om söndagen, eller som i veckor avsätter en tiondel av lönen att betala kistan för treåringen. Den typen av tydlighet är inte enbart av godo: poesi handlar ofta lika mycket om att antyda som att berätta. Detta lyckas Sandburg med endast sporadiskt; ofta liknar det mer journalistik än poesi.

Nu är arbetarna inte Sandburgs enda ämne: lika mycket handlar det om staden, en ung, arbetande, oslipad stad även den. Stolt över att vara USA:s livsmedelsupplag och järnvägsknut, en stad fylld med självförtroende och tillförsikt, men också söndriga människoliv, dimma och olikhet. Sandburg är inte lyriker, han hyllar hellre arbetets söner än mediterar över solens spel i vattnet, men även han vänder sig då och då mot Michigansjön eller förlorar sig i dimmans virvlar.

Skall poesi enbart bedömas efter skönhet är Sandburg endast en medelmåttig poet. Bedömer man även efter den innerlighet som förmedlas är han stor. Om även klarsyn inräknas kan han nå riktigt sublima höjder.
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Verk
215
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Medlemmar
11,278
Popularitet
#2,086
Betyg
4.1
Recensioner
131
ISBN
307
Språk
6
Favoritmärkt
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