A Biography On Carl Sandburg

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passion was poetry.
Some of his early poems were published in the Chicago newspapers he worked for.


With his love for poetry grew, the demand for his poetry also grew. In
the year 1916, at the age of thirty eight, he published the book, Chicago poems.
Two years later, at the age of forty, he published Cornhuskers. The public
loved these two marvelous books. Other poets accepted them as wonderful. In the
1920's he became so popular, that he quit journalism to write full-time as a
career. He also moved away from the black ink to write songs. Some were
accepted into songbooks, such as The Songbag, and The New American Songbag.

Sandburg was then transformed into an American Marvel. he was very
interested in the Ideas of Democracy and Liberty. He was inspired by great men,
such as Abraham Lincoln, who was shot eighteen years before Sandburg's birth.
He was so inspired that he wrote a book about the man's life. It was called
Abraham Lincoln: The war years volumes 1, 2, 3, and ...

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