Carl Sandburg (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Besides his poetry, Carl Sandburg wrote a multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln, composed children’s stories, collected American folk songs, and worked for many years as a journalist.
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In “Notes for a Preface” to his Complete Poems, Carl Sandburg remarked,
At fifty I had published a two-volume biography and The American Songbag, and
there was puzzlement as to whether I was a poet, a biographer, a wandering troubadour with a
guitar, a midwest [The entire page is 5110 words long]
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