Carl Sandburg

Sandburg Treasury (eBook, ePUB)

Prose and Poetry for Young People

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet's complete works for children-with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg. As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children's literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, Rootabaga Stories, explore farms, trains and other typical locales as the clever characters discover the magic of the Midwest. This volume includes all five of Carl Sandburg's books for young readers:Rootabaga Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prairie-Town Boy,andAbe Lincoln Grows Up.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781328521767
• Artikelnr.: 50916268

Autorenporträt

Carl Sandburg was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He is the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature," especially for his volumes of collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life," and, upon his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson said about the writer: "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."