...Charles H. Compton Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 WHO READS CARL SANDBURG? CHARLES H. COMPTON St. Louis Public Library TEN YEARS ago the critics had their fling at Sandburg. Today he is accepted. Anthologies of modern verse include him some with due praise, others without...

...Wilson Allen Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 CARL SANDBURG FIRE and SMOKE Gay Wilson Allen i In 1950, at the age of seventy-two, Carl Sandburg published a col­ lected edition of his poetry called Complete Poems. It was a heavy volume, running to nearly seven hundred large pages...

...Alan Jenkins Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 PORTRAIT OF A POET AT COLLEGE ALAN JENKINS IN SEPTEMBER, 1898, Charles August Sandburg, later to be known as Carl Sandburg, entered Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, as a liberal arts student. Twenty years old, he had just...

..., to be truthful and offers as proof the declining popularity and the disillusionment of Mencken, Lindsay, Masters, and Sandburg, the literary champions, he asserts, of Jeffer­ sonian democracy. It was in 1932 that Gregory wrote his essay, Our Writers and the Democratic Myth fateful 1932, year of uncertainty...

... of the volume, at least, produced some unprejudiced and really helpful criticism. In her frank treat­ ment of Masters and Sandburg, and in her appreciative prefa­ tory references to such moderately conservative poets as Louis Untermeyer and William Rose Benet, she has proved once for all that enthusiasm has...

...R. H. Woody The Diary of a Public Man: An Intimate View of the National Administration, December 28, 1860, to March 15, 1861, and A Page of Political Correspondence, Stanton to Buchanan . Prefatory Notes by Bullard F. Lauriston . Foreword by Sandburg Carl . Chicago : privately...

...R. H. Woody Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings . Edited by Basler Roy P. . Preface by Carl Sandburg. Cleveland and New York : The World Publishing Company , 1946 . Pp. xxx , 843 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 429 Abraham Lincoln...

... to any one now alive is more than I can conceive. Her apparent rejection of Sandburg and Masters, the men who have something to say, in favor of H. D. and J. G. Fletcher, the worshipers of beauty, shows her own bent, just as her own poetry does. Disregarding the somewhat stronger utterances of Mr. Ezra...

... on by the bestial struggle for gain. Chi­ cago s life was gaudy, pitiless, empty, lonely, treacherous. Though he could see the swarming multitudes as clearly as Sandburg did, Fletcher saw nothing to glorify. He went to Little Rock and to New Orleans to visit his sisters. The South depressed him. Deso­ lation...

... design. The more intricate the design, the more excitingly difficult the game. The simpler the design, the more doubt that the author really has very much to say, the very grave doubt that he is in any real sense an artist at all. Thus the patriarchal Carl Sandburg has fallen, while the eternal youth...

... the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it. Now the boar and the asp have power in our time. Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid. The best illustration of the gulf that divides the poetry of democ­ racy from proletarian poetry is the work of Carl Sandburg, espe­ cially...

... to read aloud and a wood-cut he had just done for the Year-Book. These were exciting days in literary America, what with Amy Lowell and her cigar pursuing Beauty and New Forms in Massachu­ setts and Carl Sandburg emitting his Whitmanesque yawps in Chi­ cago. Little magazines erupted like measles, and new...

.... Newman, of the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Chica­ go, brought out a fine edition with a foreword by Carl Sandburg and a distinguished introduction by F. Lauriston Bullard. Until that time it was available only in libraries which had the 1879 issues of the Review on their shelves and was practically...

... the darker years of Bellamy, Veblen, and Henry George, to the present when such writers as Carl Sandburg and John Dos Passos protest against the lies of contem­ porary social and economic life. This volume of Jose Antonio Ramos is no mere classroom man­ As the Other Americans See Our Literature 215 ual...

... is reminded also of Walter Hines Page s passionate devotion to his native rural North Carolina and its yeomanry. Odum invokes all these spirits, and with them those of Whitman and Sandburg and Tom Wolfe in support of his democratic faith and his plea for regional diversity and tolerance. In the hands...

... to Arms, which were appearing at the same time as the work of unreconstructed figures such as Dreiser, Lewis, Sandburg, and Wolfe. In a study which is uncommonly fair to authors of all persuasions, we are told that Wolfe was by his in­ escapable nature the spontaneous, organic artist of America...

... and never had a very sure relationship with any of Pound s other discoveries. She felt much more at home with the middle westerners Sandburg, Masters, and Lindsay. The result has often been a tendency to divide the first ten years of Poetry, or the bulk of them, between an international tendency headed...

... for it. Harriet Monroe was always nervous about Eliot and never had a very sure relationship with any of Pound s other discoveries. She felt much more at home with the middle westerners Sandburg, Masters, and Lindsay. The result has often been a tendency to divide the first ten years of Poetry, or the bulk...

... defeated by the rugged mountains, has given way to Billy Graham, as Bill Nye, the kindly humorist of Buck Shoals, gave way to Tom Wolfe, and as Memminger of Flat Rock, the Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, has given way to Carl Sandburg, the poet of the proletariat. If the farmer and woodsman have...

... to Billy Graham, as Bill Nye, the kindly humorist of Buck Shoals, gave way to Tom Wolfe, and as Memminger of Flat Rock, the Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, has given way to Carl Sandburg, the poet of the proletariat. If the farmer and woodsman have been eased out to preserve the scenic beauty...