Always the Young Strangers (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- First Published: 1953
- Time of Work: 1878–1899
- Setting: Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Virginia, and Puerto Rico
- Principal Characters: Carl Sandburg, August Sandburg, Clara Anderson Sandburg, Mary Sandburg, Martin Sandburg
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Autobiography, Poetry or poets, Immigration or emigration, War, Small-town life, Tramps or hoboes, Biography, Jesuits
- Locales: Virginia, Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska, Puerto Rico
Form and Content
In an introductory poem called “Scroll,” Sandburg says, “for actions, speeches, silences,/ set forth by images of the mind// to do again and to do over/ precisely what they did do once—/ this is memory.” Because he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday the year that this autobiography was published, however, Sandburg was recording not merely his personal memories but those memories as enriched by extensive research and by his experiences since his youth.
The title, Always the Young Strangers, is taken from Sandburg’s poem...
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