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| I’ll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. |
| —Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (7205) |
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| Carl Sandburg |
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| 1878–1967, American poet and biographer, b. Galesburg, Ill. In 1902 he went to work as a newspaperman in Milwaukee. Sandburg later moved to Chicago, where he continued his journalism career, becoming in 1917 an editorial writer for the Chicago Daily News. His poetry first began to attract attention in Harriet Monroe’s magazine Poetry. With the appearance of his Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), Smoke and Steel (1920), and Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922), his reputation was established.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  s nd´bûrg´´, sn´- from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- Carl Sandburg celebrated his romance with America in these three early collections.
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- Sandburg, Carl, 48030 to 48060
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- Cool Tombs (MAP); Fog (MAP); Grass (MAP); Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard (MAP)
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