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Carl Sandburg
卡尔·桑德堡
(1878-1967)
Brief Introduction
His Life
Writing Style
Major Works
Subject s&theme
Appreciation on Chicago
Brief Introduction
Name: Carl Sandburg
Born: January6,1878(Galesburg, Illinois)

Died: July22,1967(aged89)
Occupation: Journalist,Author
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Swedish
Notable work: Abraham Lincoln:The War Years(biography)
Rootabaga Stories (children’s stories)

Notable award: Two Pulitzer Prizes
Spouses: Lilian Steichen
Pulitzer Prizes
※A . Award for achievements
Established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer
※Awarded yearly
A certificate + a . $10,000 cash award + a gold medal
Pulitzer Prizes
plete Poems of Carl Sandburg
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
★American modern poet,historian,novelist,reporter
★Best know for his poetry
★A breaker of conventions
☆An innovator of American poetry
★Write plain poems for plain people
★To be sound of the people
A central figure in the “Chicago Renaissance”
Be awarded the American Poetry Society prize in 1919 and1920
Be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for plete Poems in 1950
The greatest of the prairie poets
Contribution to colloquial style of American literature

The essor of Walt Whitman
Sandburg & Walt Whitman
Sandburg’s writings celebrated the American spirit , so he often called the essor to Walt Whitman.
The two writer
※Shared an appreciation for the rhythms of the urban life
※mon laborers
※Also had a kind of mystic streak(神秘主义倾向) in their ecstatic(狂喜的)expression