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Carl Sandburg
Author
Series
American poets project volume 23
Language
English
Description
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate so deeply with americans today. Edited and with an Introduction by George and Willene Hendrick.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
©1963
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 111 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of seventy-seven "poems of the prairies, poems on the nature of love, poems about many other topics, and a. . . [long] chanting poem, 'Timesweep, ' about many incarnations of life over the ages."
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c1939
Physical Desc
440 p. illus., maps, plates.
Language
English
Description
Writings on the American Civil War selected from the Pulitzer Prize–winning presidential biography Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, with illustrations and maps. Drawn from Carl Sandburg's magisterial biography of the sixteenth US president, this volume focuses in on the War Between the States, bringing the author's trademark clarity and vivid style to this dark and dramatic period in the nation's history. Moving from Sumter to Shiloh, Antietam...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1970]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
480 p. illus., facsim. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This illustrated anthology features the celebrated poet's complete works for children-with an introduction by his wife, Paula Sandburg.
As a young father of two daughters, Carl Sandburg noticed that children's literature was still stuck in the traditions of European folklore, centered on princes, princesses and peasants. He wanted to create stories that spoke more directly to American children and their way of life. His first book for children, Rootabaga...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Pub. Date
[c1932]
Physical Desc
3 p. ℓ., v-xii, 357 p. front., 1 illus., pl., ports., facsims. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author
Language
English
Description
A compilation of six volumes of the author's poetry: Chicago poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), Smoke and steel (1920), Slabs of the sunburnt West (1922), Good morning, America (1925), and The people, yes (1936); and a new section of 74 poems not previously collected.
17) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Publisher
C. Scribner's sons
Pub. Date
1940
Edition
The Sangamon ed.
Physical Desc
6 v. fronts., illus. (incl. maps, plans) plates, ports., facsims. 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Farrar Strauss Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the popcorn the Huckabucks had raised explodes in a fire and Pony Pony Huckabuck finds a silver buckle inside a squash, the family decides it is time for a change.
19) Remembrance Rock
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
©1948
Edition
1st regular ed.
Physical Desc
1067 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three epic periods of American history are portrayed: those of the Pilgrim Fathers, the American Revolution, and the Civil War.
