Cornhuskers is the collection of 103 poems. It earned Sandburg the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
ROBERT FROST: "An authentic original voice in literature."—The Atlantic Monthly.
MOUNTAIN INTERVAL: "A remarkable work touched with prophecy and poetic passion."—Brooklyn Eagle.
"A poetic art almost classical in its restraint."—Review of...More
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength...More
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."
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Cornhuskers is the collection of 103 poems. It earned Sandburg the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
ROBERT FROST: "An authentic original voice in literature."—The Atlantic Monthly.
MOUNTAIN INTERVAL: "A remarkable work touched with prophecy and poetic passion."—Brooklyn Eagle.
"A poetic art almost classical in its restraint."—Review of Reviews.
"The same distinguished and distinctive features as its predecessors, with perhaps still finer finish, color, mellowness, delicacy and half-hid humor."—Chicago Herald
NORTH OF BOSTON: "The poet had the insight to trust the people with the book of people and the people replied 'Man, what is your name?'"—New York Evening Sun.
"The first poet for half a century to express New England life completely with a fresh, original and appealing way of his own."—Boston Transcript.
A BOY'S WILL Mr. Frost's First Volume of Poetry
"We have read every line with that amazement and delight which are too seldom evoked by books of modern verse."—The Academy (London)
Carl Sandburg
