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  "Chicago"

  Editor:Cynthia RoseFrom:American Decades Primary Sources (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  20043 pages Poem Poem By: Carl Sandburg Date: 1916 Source: Sandburg, Carl. "Chicago." Chicago Poems. New York: Holt, 1916. Reprinted in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, rev. and exp. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970,...
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  Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  2001 Biography 1240LPOET Though best remembered for the poetry he wrote during the 1910s, Carl Sandburg is notable for a range of contributions to American letters, including not only poetry but also journalism and biography. A leading...
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  Cool Tombs

  Editor:Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 6. )

  199915 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Carl Sandburg 1918 At the time of his death in 1967, Carl Sandburg was a popular icon, portrayed in Time and Newsweek magazines as a troubadour of the common man. When his poetry was first published, however, both his...
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  Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 4: 1930-1939. )

  2001 Biography 1350LPOET Born on a corn-husk mattress in a three-room shack and raised in the prairie town of Galeburg, Illinois, Carl Sandberg, who early changed his name to the more American-sounding Charles Sandburg, was the restless...
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  Chicago

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 3. )

  199818 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Carl Sandburg 1916 Carl Sandburg’s first major volume of poems, Chicago Poems, published in 1916, offered the poem “Chicago,” which would go on to be one of the most famous poems that Sandburg wrote. It is a classic...
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  Hope Is a Tattered Flag

  Editors:Jennifer Smith and Elizabeth ThomasonFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 12. )

  200114 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Carl Sandburg 1936 Bearing only the numerical title, “16,” “Hope Is a Tattered Flag” first appeared in 1936 in Carl Sandburg’s The People, Yes, a three-hundred-page celebration of the American spirit, with an emphasis...
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  Sandburg, Carl 1878-1967

  Author:Gay Wilson AllenFrom:American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies (Vol. 3: Archibald MacLeish to George Santayana. )

  197424 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction CARL SANDBURG never won the Nobel Prize, but some Americans thought that he should have, and when Hemingway received it in 1954 he told reporters that it should have gone to Sandburg. Later in the year at...
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  The 1910s: The Arts: Awards

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  2001 Topic overview, Brie... 770LThe Pulitzer Prizes were first awarded in 1917 for journalism, biography, and history. Prizes for drama and fiction were added in 1918. In 1918 the Poetry Society of America, founded in 1910, gave its first award....
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  Castillo, Ana (1953–)

  Author:Claire JoysmithFrom:Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Vol. 2. 2^nd ed.)

  20082 pages Brief biography 990LAna Castillo is an acclaimed Chicana/Latina poet, novelist, and essayist as well as editor and translator. Born in Chicago on 15 June 1953, she received a B.A. degree from Northern Illinois University in 1975, an M.A....
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  Chase-Riboud, Dr. Barbara Dewayne

  Editor:Tara E. AtterberryFrom:Who's Who Among African Americans (34^th ed.)

  20191 page Topic overview Sculptor, writer. Personal: born Jun 26, 1939, Philadelphia, PA; Daughter of Charles Edward and Vivian May Braithwaite West; married Sergio G Tosi, Jul 4, 1981; married Marc Eugene, Dec 25, 1961 (divorced 1981);...
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  Poetry

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 3: 1920-1929. )

  2001 Topic overview 1140LMajor poems were written during the 1920s by poets who were publishing before the war: Robert Frost (1874-1963), Ezra Pound (1885-1972), Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), Vachel Lindsay...
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  The 1950s: The Arts: Awards

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 6: 1950-1959. )

  20013 pages Awards list 620L1950Fiction: The Way West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.Drama: South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Joshua LoganPoetry: Annie Allen, by Gwendolyn BrooksMusic: The Consul, by Gian Carlo Menotti...
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  Dove, Rita Frances

  Editor:Tara E. AtterberryFrom:Who's Who Among African Americans (34^th ed.)

  20192 pages Topic overview Poet, educator, writer. Personal: born Aug 28, 1952, Akron, OH; Daughter of Ray A; married Fred Viebahn, Mar 23, 1979; children: Aviva Viebahn. Educ: Miami Univ, Oxford, OH, BA, 1973; Univ Tuebingen W Ger, attended 1975;...
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  Hughes, Langston (1902–1967)

  From:African American Eras: Segregation to Civil Rights Times (Vol. 1: Activism and Reform, The Arts, Business and Industry. )

  20114 pages Biography Langston Hughes is a writer and poet closely identified with the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of the arts among African Americans in the 1920s. Although best known as a poet, Hughes wrote short stories, novels, plays,...
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  Literature: The New Poetry

  Editors:Judith S. Baughman, Victor Bondi, Richard Layman, Tandy McConnell, and Vincent TompkinsFrom:American Decades (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  2001 Topic overview 1400LMuch of the credit for the identification of the 1910s as a period of literary renaissance must be given to its poets, who revolutionized literature—and whose works had close ties to those of the visual artists of the...
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  Untermeyer, Louis 1885–1977

  Author:Jonathan N. BarronFrom:American Writers, Supplement 15

  200626 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction THE POET, ANTHOLOGIST, novelist, satirist, and editor Louis Untermeyer published some one hundred books (not counting juvenile titles) and, by the end of his life, had become a prime example of “a minor...
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  A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World

  Editor:Cynthia RoseFrom:American Decades Primary Sources (Vol. 2: 1910-1919. )

  20044 pages Excerpt, Autobiograp... Autobiography By: Harriet Monroe Date: 1938 Source: Monroe, Harriet. A Poet's Life: Seventy Years in a Changing World. New York: Macmillan, 1938, 251–254. About the Author: Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) was born in...
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  Blood Oranges

  Editor:Elizabeth ThomasonFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 13. )

  200116 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Lisel Mueller 1986 “Blood Oranges” comes from Second Language, Lisel Mueller’s fourth book of poetry. In this poem, one sees subjects that have interested Mueller throughout her career, most notably the Holocaust in...
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  Brown, Sterling (1901–1989)

  Authors:Stephen E. Henderson and Mark A. SandersFrom:African American Writers (Vol. 1. 2^nd ed.)

  200112 pages Excerpt, Critical es... 1230LSTEPHEN E. HENDERSONWITH NEW SCHOLARSHIP BY MARK A. SANDERS Introduction STERLING ALLEN BROWN, a pioneering and gifted poet, a seminal scholar, a brilliant critic, a master teacher, and mentor to hundreds, is...
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  Masters, Edgar Lee 1868-1950

  Author:Linda W. WagnerFrom:American Writers, Supplement 1 (Vol. 2. )

  197925 pages Critical essay, Biog... Introduction IN 1915, with the publication of Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters found himself the center of an American literary controversy. A forty-seven-year-old Illinois lawyer who had longed since boyhood...