Carl Sandburg fu una figura influente e ampiamente celebrata della cultura americana, nota per il suo lavoro come folklorista, storico, poeta e romanziere. Le sue poesie in versi liberi erano famose per la loro celebrazione dei popoli, della geografia e dell'industria americana. La forte connessione di Sandburg con il suo Paese fu sottolineata da Henry Louis Mencken, che lo descrisse come "indubbiamente americano in ogni battito del suo cuore."
Uno dei contributi più significativi di Sandburg alla letteratura americana fu la sua biografia in sei volumi di Abraham Lincoln, pubblicata tra il 1926 e il 1939. Questo ambizioso lavoro dimostrò il suo impegno nella ricerca storica e il suo interesse a comprendere il passato della nazione. Accanto al suo lavoro biografico, Sandburg pubblicò anche diverse collezioni di poesie, tra cui "Smoke and Steel" (1920), che ulteriormente metteva in mostra la sua unica voce e stile letterario.
Il talento eccezionale di Sandburg come scrittore fu riconosciuto con diversi Premi Pulitzer, consolidandone il posto come uno degli autori americani più importanti e influenti del XX secolo. La sua abilità di catturare lo spirito del popolo e del paesaggio americano nella sua poesia e prosa ha lasciato un'eredità duratura nella letteratura. L'opera di Sandburg continuerà ad essere studiata e ammirata per la sua potente ed evocativa rappresentazione dell'esperienza americana.
Romanzi singoli
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Remembrance Rock
1948
Libri per bambini
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Rootabaga Stories
1922
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Rootabaga Pigeons
1923
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Abe Lincoln Grows Up
1928
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Early Moon
1930
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Prairie-Town Boy
1955
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Wind Song
1960
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The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll & The Broom Handle and Who Was in It
1967
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The Sandburg Treasury
1970
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Rainbows Are Made
1982
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More Rootabaga Stories
1993
Collezioni
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Incidentals
1904
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In Reckless Ecstasy
1904
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Chicago Poems
1916
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Cornhuskers
1918
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Smoke and Steel
1920
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Slabs of the Sunburnt
1922
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Poems of the Midwest
1946
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The Complete Poems
1950
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Harvest Poems
1960
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Honey and Salt
1963
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Breathing Tokens
1978
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Ever the Winds of Chance
1983
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Fables, Foibles, and Foobles
1988
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Arithmetic
1993
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Billy Sunday And Other Poems
1993
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Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems
1996
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Selected Poems
1996
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Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote
1999
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Poetry for Kids
2017
Libri di non-fiction
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You and Your Job
1908
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Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years
1926
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The American Songbag
1927
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Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow
1932
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Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
1939
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Storm Over The Land
1942
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Home Front Memo
1943
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New American Songbag
1950
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Always the Young Strangers
1953
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A Lincoln Preface
1953
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The Letters of Carl Sandburg
1968
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The Chicago Race Riots of 1919
1969
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Ever the Winds of Chance
1983
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Carl Sandburg at the Movies
1985
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The Poet and the Dream Girl (With: Lilian Steichen)
1987
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The Poet and the Dream Girl
1987
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The Movies Are
2000
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The Sandburg Range
2001
Poetry
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The People, Yes
2009
American Poets Project Books
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Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)
1892
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Edgar Allan Poe (By: Richard Wilbur)
1909
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Theodore Roethke ( By: Theodore Roethke)
1969
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A. R. Ammons (By: David Lehman, A.R. Ammons)
1977
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William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)
1984
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1991
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Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems
1996
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Yvor Winters (By: Thom Gunn, Yvor Winters)
1999
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Karl Shapiro (By: John Updike, Karl Shapiro)
2003
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Poets of World War II (By: Various Various, Harvey Shapiro)
2003
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American Wits (By: John Hollander)
2003
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John Greenleaf Whittier (By: John Greenleaf Whittier)
2004
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Kenneth Fearing (By: Robert Polito, Kenneth Fearing)
2004
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Muriel Rukeyser (By: Muriel Rukeyser)
2004
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John Berryman (By: Kevin Young, John Berryman)
2004
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Poets of the Civil War ( By: J.D. McClatchy)
2005
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Emma Lazarus (By: Emma Lazarus)
2005
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Edith Wharton ( By: Edith Wharton)
2005
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The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (By: Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander)
2005
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Cole Porter (By: Robert Kimball, Cole Porter)
2006
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Louis Zukofsky (By: Louis Zukofsky, Charles Bernstein)
2006
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Kenneth Koch (By: Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch)
2007
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American Sonnets (By: David Bromwich)
2007
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James Agee (By: James Agee, Andrew Hudgins)
2008
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Poems from the Women's Movement (By: Honor Moore)
2009
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Ira Gershwin (By: Robert Kimball, Ira Gershwin)
2009
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Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs (By: Stephen Collins Foster, Ken Emerson)
2010
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Countee Cullen (By: Major Jackson, Countee Cullen)
2010
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Amy Lowell (By: Honor Moore)
2012
Poetry for Young People Books
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Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)
1977
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Robert Frost ( By: Robert Frost)
1994
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Emily Dickinson ( By: Emily Dickinson)
1994
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Edgar Allan Poe (By: Edgar Allan Poe)
1995
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Carl Sandburg
1995
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
1998
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)
1999
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Robert Louis Stevenson (By: Robert Louis Stevenson)
2000
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William Shakespeare ( By: William Shakespeare)
2000
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Lewis Carroll ( By: Lewis Carroll)
2000
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Rudyard Kipling ( By: Rudyard Kipling)
2000
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Edward Lear (By: Edward Lear)
2001
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American Poetry (By: John Hollander)
2002
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William Butler Yeats ( By: W.B. Yeats)
2002
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Robert Browning (By: Robert Browning)
2003
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
2003
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William Wordsworth ( By: William Wordsworth)
2003
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Alfred Tennyson ( By: Alfred Tennyson)
2003
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William Carlos Williams ( By: William Carlos Williams)
2003
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Animal Poems (By: John Hollander)
2004
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Wallace Stevens (By: Wallace Stevens)
2004
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The Seasons (By: John N. Serio)
2004
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Langston Hughes ( By: Langston Hughes)
2006
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William Blake ( By: William Blake)
2007
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Poetry for Young People (By: Maya Angelou)
2007
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Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg
2008
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African American Poetry (By: Karen Barbour)
2013
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Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)
2017
Carl Sandburg Anthologies
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War: An Anthology
1969
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Beat the Drum, Independence Day Has Come: Poems for the Fourth of July