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...fresh note rather than a new one is struck in Poet Engle's writings. Enthusiasts may compare him to Whitman, to Sandburg, to Frost, but cooler heads will wait for more achievement before upping him above MacLeish or Jeffers. A note of challenge to defeat, however, augurs well for the future. "Complaint to Sad Poets" sounds the battle cry: Will you never be done with barking at the moon? . . . The terrier bitch that whelped its litter today Under the barn where the dirt is moist and dark Shames and defies you with the quiet logic Of life that works...
...gives Beatrice a handsome dowry, Narcissa a present that will make her pomp less anxious, then takes himself and his sternly aching heart off to parts unknown. Net result of Kit's fierce attitudinizings is to remind the reader less of a Hemingway hero than of Carl Sandburg's fairy-tale character who. when asked: "Why do you always shadow us?" replied. "I ;.m a peanut, a proud, peculiar peanut...
Still a housekeeper, wife and mother in spite of authorship, Julia Peterkin has little truck with literary haunts. Poet Carl Sandburg once paid her his supreme compliment when he called her the only writer he knew who was not a literary person. Tall and straight, redhaired, with a calm expression, a poised and kindly manner, Authoress Peterkin writes more now than she did but lives as much as ever on her South Carolina plantation. Other books: Black April, Bright Skin. Rascoe Preferred...
Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
MARY LINCOLN-Carl Sandburg & Paul M. Angle-Ear court, Brace ($3). In Chicago's big pan. 15 years ago. one of the brightest literary flashes was Poet Carl Sandburg. His precepts (such as his famed definition of poetry as "the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits") were taken as seriously as his examples. A later day will probably rate his biological work on the Lincolns as his most considerable performance. In Mary Lincoln's 159 pages he telescopes the life of Lincoln's termagant wife as a little companion book to his 604 pages...