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Carl Sandburg

Born

in Galesburg, Illinois, The United States

January 06, 1878

Died

July 22, 1967

Genre

Poetry

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Free verse poems of known American writer Carl August Sandburg celebrated American people, geography, and industry; alongside his six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln (1926-1939), his collections of poetry include Smoke and Steel (1920).

This best editor won Pulitzer Prizes. Henry Louis Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

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Average rating: 4.11 · 23,633 ratings · 2,023 reviews · 785 distinct works • Similar authors

	Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years 4.28 avg rating — 5,503 ratings — published 1939 — 182 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chicago Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,693 ratings — published 1916 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family of Man by Carl Sandburg, Edward Steichen (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 2,034 ratings — published 1955 — 61 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poems 4.13 avg rating — 1,346 ratings — published 1950 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg, Miska Petersham (Illustrator), Maud Petersham (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 1922 — 163 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems 4.02 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honey And Salt: Seventy-Seven American Poems on Life, Love, Death, and Nature 4.05 avg rating — 471 ratings — published 1963 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 by Carl Sandburg, Mark van Doren (Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 1960 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carl Sandburg (Poetry for Young People, #3) by Carl Sandburg, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (Editor), Steven Arcella (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 335 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years 4.39 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1926 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Carl Sandburg (?)

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”
― Carl Sandburg

3014 likes

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: progress

2230 likes

“A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.”
― Carl Sandburg

tags: children, hope, religion

1613 likes

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Polls

Who is your favorite poet?

Emily Dickinson

60 votes, 9.1%

Edgar Allan Poe

54 votes, 8.2%

Sylvia Plath

32 votes, 4.9%

William Shakespeare

29 votes, 4.4%

Robert Frost

25 votes, 3.8%

T. S. Eliot (write-in)

25 votes, 3.8%

William Blake (write-in)

22 votes, 3.3%

William Butler Yeats

19 votes, 2.9%

Not sure yet (write-in)

19 votes, 2.9%

Walt Whitman (write-in)

18 votes, 2.7%

Percy Bysshe Shelley

17 votes, 2.6%

Edna St. Vincent Millay

16 votes, 2.4%

Edgar Allan Poe, Shelley, Shakespeare and Jim Morrison, also Alfred Noyes

16 votes, 2.4%

Alfred Tennyson

14 votes, 2.1%

Mary Oliver (write-in)

14 votes, 2.1%

Robert frost (write-in)

13 votes, 2.0%

Robert Burns

11 votes, 1.7%

Bob Dylan

11 votes, 1.7%

Franz Kafka (write-in)

11 votes, 1.7%

Jon Keats (write-in)

11 votes, 1.7%

I'm not a fan of poetry

10 votes, 1.5%

Lord Byron (write-in)

10 votes, 1.5%

Christina Rossetti

8 votes, 1.2%

W. H. Auden (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

Seamus Heaney (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

Charles Baudelaire

8 votes, 1.2%

W.B. Yeats (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

Pablo Neruda (write-in)

8 votes, 1.2%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

7 votes, 1.1%

You shouldn't let poets lie to you. (write-in)

7 votes, 1.1%

I don't have one

7 votes, 1.1%

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (write-in)

6 votes, 0.9%

Andrew Hozier-Byrne (write-in)

5 votes, 0.8%

Dante Alighieri (write-in)

5 votes, 0.8%

Carl Sandburg

4 votes, 0.6%

Jim Morrison (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

Tomas Tranströmer or Kahlil Gibran (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

Wilfred Owen (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

A. S. Pushkin (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

Maya Angelou (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

Kendrick Lamar (write-in)

4 votes, 0.6%

George Sterling (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Edward Lear (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Anne Sexton

3 votes, 0.5%

Matsuo Basho (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Arthur Rimbaud (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Sara Teasdale (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Paul Celan (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Rabindera Nath Tagore (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

James Joyce (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Mahmoud Darwish (write-in)

3 votes, 0.5%

Clement Clarke Moore

2 votes, 0.3%

Robert Louis Stevenson

2 votes, 0.3%

Stephen Vincent Benét

2 votes, 0.3%

juana de ibarbourou (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Hugo Claus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Theodor Geisel (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

San Juan de la Cruz (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

John Keats and Giacomo Leopardi (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Georg Trakl (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Victor Hugo (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Ivan Vazov (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Idea Vilariño (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Lang Leav (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Philip Larkin (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

john donne (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

JoAnna Novak (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

Amanda Gorman (write-in)

2 votes, 0.3%

James Whitcomb Riley

1 vote, 0.2%

Alfred Noyes

1 vote, 0.2%

Frank O'Hara (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1 vote, 0.2%

Robert Service (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Herman Hesse (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Rachel Rooney (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Marin Sorescu (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Carol Ann Duffy (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Dylan Thomas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Alejandra Pizarnik (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

William wordsworth (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Sappho (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Rakim, Nas (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Tracy K. Smith (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

A. E. Housman (write-in)

1 vote, 0.2%

Big L

0 votes, 0.0%

Sonya Sones

0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya

0 votes, 0.0%

Cemal Süreya & Dulce María Loynaz

0 votes, 0.0%

William McGonagall (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Joanna Novab (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Elizabeth Barrett browning (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

t.s eliot (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

658 total votes

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