Sandburg, Carl August
Sandburg, Carl August ( 1878 – 1967 ),American poet, born in Chicago of Swedish Lutheran immigrant stock. He challenged contemporary taste by his use of colloquialism and free verse, and became the principal among the authors writing in Chicago during and after the First World War. He published Chicago Poems ( 1916 ), Cornhuskers ( 1918 ), Smoke and Steel ( 1920 ), Slabs of the Sunburnt West ( 1922 ), Good Morning America ( 1928 ), and Complete Poems ( 1950 ). He also compiled a collection of folk songs, The American Songbag ( 1927 ), and wrote stories and poems for children. His major prose work is his monumental life of Abraham Lincoln (6 vols, 1926 – 39 ); his novel Remembrance Rock ( 1948 ) is on an epic scale and traces the growth of an American family from its English origins and its crossing on the Mayflower to the present day. Always the Young...
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