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In Carl Sandburg: A Biography Penelope Niven sees in the life and work of this poet "an odyssey into the American experience." Born to immigrant parents in a small Illinois town in 1878, Sandburg dropped out of school at age 14 and learned the yearnings of the common man while criss-crossing America. At one point he identified 10 men inside himself. Over the years they would all surface as the itinerant salesman, the journalist, the crusading Socialist, the magazine editor, the film critic, the folk singer, the children's book editor, the orator, the Pultizer Prize-winning poet, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographe
In Carl Sandburg: A Biography Penelope Niven sees in the life and work of this poet "an odyssey into the American experience." Born to immigrant parents in a small Illinois town in 1878, Sandburg dropped out of school at age 14 and learned the yearnings of the common man while criss-crossing America. At one point he identified 10 men inside himself. Over the years they would all surface as the itinerant salesman, the journalist, the crusading Socialist, the magazine editor, the film critic, the folk singer, the children's book editor, the orator, the Pultizer Prize-winning poet, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Abraham Lincoln.
A driven man with phenomenal stamina, Carl Sandburg relied on the steadfast love and support of his wife. Sandburg once said, "Conquer the kingdom under your own hat and all the world shall be yours." It took him a lifetime to sort out all the different people in the kingdom under his hat. His life from 1878 to 1967 gives hope to those of us who believe that the world will be ours if we follow the vocational promptings of our hearts and minds.
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Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Release date: 1 November 1993
ISBN-10 : 0252021150 |
ISBN-13: 9780252021152
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