Chicago Poems (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Midwest, Class consciousness, Poetry or poets, Chicago, Poverty or poor people, Working class, Democracy, Fog
- Locales: Chicago, IL
Critical Evaluation:
The publication of Chicago Poems created a furor characteristic of the introduction of material that is new both in subject matter and in style. The subject matter frightened and infuriated the conservatives, who insisted that Carl Sandburg’s topics were vulgar, indecent, and scarcely poetic. The poetry itself could not be scanned in the conventional way, was very free verse, and could not be called poetically beautiful. Liberal critics and readers, however, such as Harriet Monroe, the editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse who had...
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