Introduction to Sandburg

Sandburg, c. (Carl Sandburg 1878-1967)

Poet and biographer. Born in Gersburg, Illinois to a Swedish immigrant family. His father worked as a farmer and a blacksmith. Sandburg attended the local public school for four years before entering the Swedish Lutheran summer school. He started to make a living at the age of 13, driving a car and working as a concierge in a barber shop. During the war between the United States and Spain in 1898, he served in Puerto Rico and served as a war correspondent for the "Gelsburg Evening News". In September of the same year, he entered Lombard College to study for free. I left school at the age of 19. In 1904, he published his first collection of poems, "In Reckless Joy". After leaving school, he traveled to many places and engaged in various occupations, and was able to have extensive exposure to society and folk songs. In 1907, he served as assistant editor of "Tomorrow Magazine". Later he participated in the activities of the Social Democratic Party and served as secretary to the Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee.

In 1914, Sandburg's "Chicago" and eight other poems were published in "Poetry Magazine", which caused a great response, with mixed praise and praise. The publication of "Chicago Poems" in 1916 definitely determined his status in the poetry world. After that, he successively published poetry collections "The Corn-Shucker" (1918), "Smoke and Steel" (1920), "The Slate of the West Burnt by the Sun" (1922), "Good Morning, America" ??(1928), and the long poem "The People, Are of" (1936) and "Collected Poems" (1951). He, Wechel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters and others formed the Chicago School of Poetry and became the inheritors of the democratic tradition of American poetry. In addition, Sandburg also wrote "The Biography of Lincoln" (Volume 6, 1926-1942).