Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems - Carl Sandburg Biography

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Web Name: Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems - Carl Sandburg Biography

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Sandburg was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. Two years later his book Chicago Poems was published, and the thirty-eight-year-old author found himself on the brink of a career that would bring him international acclaim. Carl Sandburg worked from the time he was a young boy. He quit school following his graduation from eighth grade in 1891 and spent a decade working a variety of jobs. He delivered milk, harvested ice, laid bricks, threshed wheat in Kansas, and shined shoes in Galesburg s Union Hotel before traveling as a hobo in 1897. Sandburg s experiences working and traveling greatly influenced his writing and political views.He saw first-hand the sharp contrast between rich and poor, a dichotomy that instilled in him a distrust of capitalism. SALVAGE GUNS on the battle lines have pounded now a year between Brussels and Paris. And, William Morris, when I read your old chapter on the great arches and naves and little whimsical corners of the Churches of Northern France--Brr-rr! I m glad you re a dead man, William Morris, I m glad you re down in the damp and mouldy, only a memory instead of a living man--I m glad you re gone. You never lied to us, William Morris, you loved the shape of those stones piled and carved for you to dream over and wonder because workmen got joy of life into them, Workmen in aprons singing while they hammered, and praying, and putting their songs and prayers into the walls and roofs, the bastions and cornerstones and gargoyles--all their children and kisses of women and wheat and roses growing. I say, William Morris, I m glad you re gone, I m glad you re a dead man. Guns on the battle lines have pounded a year now between Brussels and Paris.

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Carl Sandburg - Chicago Poems, includes a biography of Carl Sandburg and the poems from his poetry book Chicago Poems

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