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...Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters...
Perhaps the reason is, as Carl Sandburg suggests in a preface to this book, that Lincoln had a wide variety of styles-a greater range than any other U.S. statesman or orator. He wrote gravely and inspiringly at times, colloquially and waggishly at others. Now & then, he even broke out into doggerel. Sample (from something called The Bear Hunt...
...Carl Sandburg, 68-year-old poet and all-out Lincoln biographer, squared himself for a faintly eerie tribute from his admirers. In Galesburg, Ill., the Carl Sandburg Association had restored the little cottage where he was born, and next month the shrine would be dedicated...
...Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten," wrote one Illinois poet, Vachel Lindsay. "The only governor of Illinois sure to be named by remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
...Carl Sandburg, white-haired poet of the Midwest, finally decided that Michigan was too cold for him, prepared to move to North Carolina. His new home: the Hendersonville house of the Confederacy's Secretary of the Treasury Christopher Memminger. With him in an auto-trailer he planned to take his wife Lillian and about a dozen goats...