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REMEMBRANCE ROCK (1,067 pp.)-Carl Sandburg-Harcourt, Brace...
...attempt to find imaginative meanings and an emotional reality in the sweep of U.S. history, to evoke that "usable past" which critics have felt might be a New World substitute for the age-old traditions and usages of Europe. No one would seem better equipped than Carl Sandburg to write it, both because of his own poetry and the historical knowledge that went into the composition of his life of Lincoln...
...epic sweep that Remembrance Rock fails. To a considerable extent it fails because of it -the grandiloquent language, the heroic characters, the poetic prose that on re-examination turns out to be well-nigh meaningless. Its failure is so complete in this respect that it may be that Sandburg's greatest service to American literature will be to have ended this sort of imaginative effort-"the great American novel"-once...
...Poet Carl Sandburg, author of the sturdy phrase quoted by Mayor Kennelly, is not included among the Great Books authors...
...page historical novel, Remembrance Rock, completed, Author-Farmer Carl Sandburg took some time off for his other big interest. A photographer spotted him on his Flat Rock, N.C. farm exchanging appraising glances with Alison, a champion milk-producing goat...