Sandburg
Noun
Meaning
United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967)
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
Sandburg is unreadable today only because of the way he wrote. His prose was bad poetry, like his poetry.
Also, Carl Sandburg Grade school, constructed in 1960's Charleston Illinois, shares in the legacy of Mr. Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg had taught at the University of Michigan for a time. citation Galesburg opened Sandburg Mall in 1974, named in honor of Sandburg.
During the time, Sandburg wrote Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). citation In 1919 Sandburg won a Pulitzer Prize "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society " for his collection Cornhuskers.
At convert, Sandburg (2002), p. 14 he was tall and "strong enough to intimidate any rival".