Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, and considered to be the immediate heir to the tradition of free verse – poetry untethered by rhyme, meter or regular stanza patterns – initiated by Walt Whitman. Besides poetry, Sandburg also is known for his popular biography of Abraham Lincoln, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 (he also won this prize for his Complete Poems in 1950). Like Whitman, he was considered in his day to be the official poetic spokesman for the United States, singing of the shacks and huts of the common man rather than of the stately and columned palaces and temples of the wealthy and powerful.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, and considered to be the immediate heir to the tradition of free verse – poetry untethered by rhyme, meter or regular stanza patterns – initiated by Walt Whitman. Besides poetry, Sandburg also is known for his popular biography of Abraham Lincoln, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 (he also won this prize for his Complete Poems in 1950). Like Whitman, he was considered in his day to be the official poetic spokesman for the United States, singing of the shacks and huts of the common man rather than of the stately and columned palaces and temples of the wealthy and powerful.
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