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Sandburg, Carl1878-1967Born at Galesburg, Ill., Jan. 6, 1878. Educated at Lombard College, Galesburg. Married Lillian Steichen, of Milwaukee, 1908. Mr. Sandburg served several years as secretary to the Mayor of Milwaukee, then went to Chicago where he became associate editor of System', leaving this magazine to become an editorial writer upon the Chicago Daily News’. He first came into prominence by a poem on “Chicago” published in Poetry', of that city, and was awarded the Levinson Prize for this poem, in 1914. The following year he published a collection of his verse under the title of "Chicago Poems", and in 1918 appeared his second volume, "Corn Huskers". This was one of two volumes to receive the Columbia University award of $500 for the best book of verse of the year. Mr. Sandburg belongs to the newer movement in poetry, using the vers-libre’ forms. He is a writer of rugged power, interested in the social aspects of modern life, but a poet who is also sensitive to beauty and a frequent master of the magic phrase.[Carl Sandburg won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1919 for “Corn Huskers”, and in 1951 for his “Complete Poems”. (Same as the Columbia University Prize listed above.) — A. L., 1998.]

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