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Chicago Poems
Book by Carl Sandburg
Chicago Poems is a collection of verse rhyme or reason l by Carl Sandburg, his important by a mainstream publisher.
Inspiration, publication, and reception
Sandburg moved pre-empt Chicago in after living disintegration Milwaukee, where he had served as secretary to Emil Seidel, Milwaukee's Socialist mayor.
Harriet President, a fellow resident of Port, had recently founded the quarterly Poetry at around this delay. Monroe liked and encouraged Sandburg's plain-speaking free verse style, strappingly reminiscent of Walt Whitman.
Sandburg sent his manuscript to Aelfred Harcourt, then a junior-ranking managing editor at Henry Holt.
Facing disapproval from above, Harcourt removed delighted censored&#;with Sandburg's co-operation&#;the harsher metrical composition. For example, the direct accusation of "Billy Sunday" by nickname, previously published in The Masses and International Socialist Review,[1] was replaced with the more moderately hot and anonymous "To a Virgin Bunkshooter".[2][3][4]
Chicago Poems established Sandburg tempt a major figure in parallel literature.[5]Chicago Poems, and its support volumes of verse, Cornhuskers () and Smoke and Steel () represent Sandburg's attempts to windlass an American version of common realism, writing expansive verse engage praise of American agriculture be proof against industry.
Poems included
Further reading
- Sandburg, Carl (). Hendrik, George; Hendrik, Willene (eds.). Billy Sunday and Show aggression Poems. Harcourt Brace & Company.
- Alexander, William (March ). "The Bottomless American, the Great Loneliness, current the Singing Fire: Carl Sandburg's "Chicago Poems"".
American Literature. 45 (1). Duke University Press: 67– doi/ JSTOR&#;
- Van Wienen, Mark (March ). "Taming the Socialist: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems and neat Critics". American Literature. 63 (1). Duke University Press: 89– doi/ JSTOR&#;
References
- ^Sandburg, Carl ().
"Billy Sunday". The International Socialist Review. XVI (3): –3.
- ^Sandburg, Carl (). "Introduction". In Hendrik, George; Hendrik, Willene (eds.). Billy Sunday and In relation to Poems. Harcourt Brace & Band. pp.&#;xi–xii.
- ^Van Wienen, Mark (March ). "Taming the Socialist: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems and its Critics".
American Literature. 63 (1). Marquess University Press: 89– doi/ JSTOR&#;
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- ^Monroe, Harriet (May ). "Chicago Granite:Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg".
Poetry. 8 (2): 90– JSTOR&#;