The World of Carl Sandburg, if not everybody's world, has long been a popular one. Over the years Sandburg, who was first a poet of the pioneering Midwest school, has sifted down into a people's poet, a patriarch with a song bag on his shoulder and a new song on his lips. He can be pithy or philosophic, can speak from the heart while poking the funny bone, and speak tenderly of babies and bad women and sad men, and speak up for dreams, and speak out against war, and be often crackerbarrel and...
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