Carl Sandburg

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Carl Sandburg

• Carl Sandburg was born on January 6, 1878.
• He died in July 1967.
• He lived in Galesburg, Illinois.

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Family Background

• Carls parents are August Sandburg and Clara
  Anderson.
• They emigrated to America from Northern Sweden.
• August was a railroad blacksmith and Clara was a
  hotel maid.

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Education

• Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work
  for his family.
• Carl moved to Kansas then to Puerto Rico where he
  served in the Spanish-American war.
• While Carl was serving in the war he met another
  man who went to school at Lombard College.
• The man told Carl attend Lombard.
• Carl went to the school when he got home from the
  war.
• He graduated from Lombard after four years.

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Education

• While Carl was in school he received the
  attention from a professor named Philip Green
  Wright.
• Philip really liked Carl's writings. He liked
  them so much that he paid for a Pamphlet called
  Reckless Ecstasy to be published.
• When Carl graduated he received a diploma and
  honorary degrees. He received these from
  Lombard, Knox College, and Northwestern
  University.

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Professions other than Writing

• Carl also played the guitar while he sang
  American folk songs.

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Contributions to American Literature

• Sandburg wrote for the American people.
• Sandburg became known for his free verse poems
  celebrating industrial and agricultural America,
  American geography and landscape, and the
  American common people.

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Sandburgs Work

• Volumes of Poetry
• In Reckless Ecstasy (1904) Chicago Poems (1916)
  Cornhuskers (1918) Smoke and Steel (1920) Slabs
  of the Sunburnt West (1922) Selected Poems
  (1926) Good Morning, America (1928) The People,
  Yes (1936) Complete Poems (1950) Harvest Poems
  (1950) Honey and Salt (1963)

• Biography Stories
• Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years (1926) The
  American Songbag (1927) Steichen the
  Photographer (1929) Mary Lincoln Wife and Widow
  (1932) Abraham Lincoln The War Years (1939)
  The New American Songbag (1950)
  Always the Young
  Strangers(1953)

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Sandburgs Work

• Storybooks for young kids
• Rootabaga Stories (1922)
• Rootabaga Pigeons (1923)
• Rootabaga Country (1929)
• Potato Face (1930)

Poems for children Early Moon (1930) Wind Song
(1960)
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Awards

• Sandburgs received some awards for his work.
• American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal.
• Pulitzer Prize and then he received it again for
  another set of poems.

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Work Cited

• http//www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/sandbur
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• http//www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID29