Carl Sandburg: Sources and Further Reading

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Sources

Allen, Gay Wilson. “Carl Sandburg - American Writers 97: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers.” Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttznd.

Butcher, Fanny. Many Lives—One Love. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. http://archive.org/details/manylivesonelove00fann.

Callahan, North. Carl Sandburg: His Life and Works. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987. http://archive.org/details/carlsandburg00nort.  

“Carl Sandburg cited by NAACP.” Baltimore Afro-American, November 30, 1965. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=euMlAAAAIBAJ&pg=4863%2C6596609.

Crowder, Richard. Carl Sandburg. Twayne’s United States Authors Series 47. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1964.  

Golden, Harry. Carl Sandburg. Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1961. http://archive.org/details/carlsandburg00gold.

Niven, Penelope. Carl Sandburg: A Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1991. http://archive.org/details/carlsandburg001.

Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. American Poets. Critical Survey of Poetry. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011.

Sandburg, Carl. “Chicago.” Poetry 3, no. 6 (1914): 191–92. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20569994.
 

Further Reading

Visit the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to peruse the Carl Sandburg papers.

Read Sandburg’s first book of poetry, Chicago Poems (via Internet Archive).  

Read through Sandburg’s American Songbag, or listen to his music (via Internet Archive).  

Listen to Sandburg read his poems out loud (via Poetry Foundation).  

Learn about (or plan a visit to) Carl Sandburg’s historic home, Connemara, in North Carolina.