Paro anand biography of abraham lincoln by carl sandburg

Account Options Logga in. Skaffa tryckt exemplar. Carl Sandburg. He later distilled his monumental creation into one volume that critics and readers alike consider his greatest work of nonfiction. Magnificently produced, this special abridged and illustrated edition features foil stamping on the spine, an imitation cloth case, high quality paper, and collaged endpapers in four-color sepia.

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Table of Contents for The Oxford encyclopedia of children's literature / Jack Zipes, editor in chief, available from the Library of Congress.

At age 13 he left school to roam the Midwest; he remained on the road for six years, working as a day laborer. After college, he went to Milwaukee, where he worked as a journalist; he also married Lillian Steichen there in During World War I, he served as a foreign correspondent in Stockholm; after the war he returned to Chicago and continued to write about America, especially the common people.

Sandburg's first poems to gain wide recognition appeared in Poetry magazine in Two years later he published his Chicago Poems , and Cornhuskers appeared in Meanwhile, Sandburg set out to become an authority on Abraham Lincoln see Vol. His exhaustive biography of the president, which took many years to complete, appeared as Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years 2 vols.

Sandburg's poetry is untraditional in form. Drawing on Whitman as well as the imagists, its rhymeless and unmetered cadences reflect Midwestern speech, and its diction ranges from strong rhetoric to easygoing slang. Although he often wrote about the uncouth, the muscular, and the primitive, there was a pity and loving kindness that was a primary motive for his poetry.

In his tribute, President Johnson said that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius.