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Selected poems / by Sandburg, Carl,1878-1967.; Hendrick, George.; Hendrick, Willene,1928-2010.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index.Chicago -- Halsted Street Car -- The Workingmen -- Fish Crier -- Muckers -- Mill-Doors -- Mag -- Onion Days -- Dynamiter -- Mamie -- Working Girls -- Trafficker -- Harrision Street Court -- Gone -- Soiled Dove -- Old Woman -- Washerwoman -- Gypsy Mother -- Implications -- Graceland -- Skyscraper -- The Peope, Yes, No. 81 -- The Windy City -- Fog -- Sketch -- Lost -- Flux -- Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard -- Window -- Sunset from Omaha Hotel Window -- Prairie Waters by Night -- Bee Song -- Bumble Bee Days -- Jan Kubelik -- Chinese Letters or Korean -- Painted Fishes -- These Valleys Seem Old -- Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn -- Billy Sunday -- The Eastland -- Anna Imroth -- The Hammer -- Child of the Romans -- Southern Pacific -- 'Boes -- Taking on Sunds Men Talk -- Glimmer -- Jerry -- Horses and Men in Rain -- Hoodlums -- The Mayor of Gary -- Blacklisted -- The Machine -- Legal Midnight Hour -- Paula -- White Shoulders -- June -- Poppies -- Margaret -- Baby Toes -- Helga -- Spanish -- You and a Sickle Moon -- In Blue Gown and in Black Satin Gown -- She Held Herself a Deep Pool for Him -- An Interwoven Man and Woman Talked -- Troth Tryst -- Offering and Rebuff -- Hellcat -- Bibea -- Fire-Logs -- In a Back Alley -- Knucks -- The People, Yes, No. 57 -- The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany -- Abraham Lincoln's Father and Mother -- Lincoln -- Mr. Lincoln and His Gloves -- Journey and Oath -- Untitled -- House -- Old TImers -- Ready to Kill -- Killers -- Planked Whitefish -- Murmurings in a Field Hospital -- Buttons -- Salvage -- Wars -- A Milllion Young Worken, 1915 -- In the Shadow of the Palace -- The Four Brothers -- Nearer Than Any Mother's Heart Wishes -- Open Letter to the Poet Archibald MacLeish WHo Has Forsaken His Massachusetts Farm to Make Propaganda for Freedom -- The Man with the Broken Fingers -- Forgotten Wars -- Grass -- To a Poet -- Memoir of a Proud Boy -- Napoleon -- Hawthorne -- Mr. Blake's Chariots -- Evidence As to a She Devil -- Arms -- Euguene V. Debs -- Ezra -- Good Babies Make Good Poems -- From an Illinois Prairie Hut -- Letters to Dead Imagists -- Illinois Farmer -- Osawatomie -- Grieg Being Dead -- Sherwood Anderson -- Jack London and O. Henry -- Without the Cane and the Derby -- To the Ghost of John Milton -- Mysterious Biography -- Mr. Longfellow and His Boy -- Dan -- Jazz Fantasia -- Sojourner Truth Speaking -- The People, Yes, No. 55 -- Cleo -- Black Prophetess -- Elizabeth Umpstead -- Says of Henry Stephens -- Nigger -- Man, the Man-Hunter -- I Am the People, the Mob -- A Reporter in Debt -- My People -- Poems Done on a Late Night Car -- Prairie -- Cartoon -- Smoke and Steel -- The Lawyers Know Too Much -- The Liars -- Threes -- Red-Headed Restaurant Cashier -- Lines Written for Gene Kelly to Dance to -- Slabs of the Sunburnt West -- A Couple -- THe People, Yes, Nos. 1, 4, 20, 37, 58, 78, 107 -- Timesweep -- Chicago Poet -- Phizzog -- Wilderness -- Broken-Face Gargoyles -- Aprons of Silence -- The Road and the End -- Style -- Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs -- Cool Tombs -- Old Osawatomie -- Hats -- Accomplished Facts -- Buffalo Dusk -- The Abracadabra Boys -- Our Hells -- Moonlight and Maggots -- Biography -- Breathing Tokens -- Monday, One P.M. -- Government -- I Should Like to Be Hanged on a Summer Afternoon -- Poetry Definitions -- Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry.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.
Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry.;
© 1996., Harcourt Brace,
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A treasury of American folklore : stories, ballads, and traditions of the people / by Botkin, Benjamin Albert,1901-1975,editor.; Sandburg, Carl,1878-1967,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Backwoods boasters -- Pseudo bad men -- Killers -- Free lances -- Miracles men -- Patron saints -- Tall talk -- The sky's the limit -- Local cracks and slams -- Pranks and tricks -- Humorous anecdotes and jests -- Yarns and tall tales -- From the liars' bench -- Animal tales -- Nursery tales -- Witch tales -- Ghost tales -- Devil tales -- Queer tales -- Play rhymes and catch colloquies -- Singing and play-party games -- Ballads and songs.Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project (1938-39) as well as his work as archivist of folksongs at the Library of Congress. As Carl Sandburg writes in his foreword, "So here we have nothing less than an encyclopedia of the folklore of America. An encyclopedia is where you get up into box car numbers ... besides giving you the company of nice, darnfool yarn spinners, it will give you something of the feel of American history, of the gloom chasers that moved many a good man who fought fire and flood, varmints and vermin, as region after region filled with settlers and homesteaders.
Subjects: Folk tales.; Folklore;
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The Norton anthology of American literature / by Levine, Robert S.(Robert Steven),1953-editor.; Gustafson, Sandra M.,editor.; Siraganian, Lisa,editor.; Hungerford, Amy,editor.; Avilez, GerShun,1980-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.v. 1. Beginnings to 1865. Preface -- Beginnings to 1820. Introduction -- Timeline -- Native American oral literature. Stories of the begging of the world ; Trickster tales ; Oratory ; Poetry -- Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1558) -- John Smith (1580-1631) -- William Bradford (1590-1657) -- John Winthrop (1588-1649) -- Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) -- Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) -- Mary Rowlandson (c. 1647-1711) -- Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729) -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Samson Occom (1723-1792) -- Ethnographic and naturalist writings. Sarah Kemble Knight ; Samson Occom ; William Bartram -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- The Federalist -- Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) -- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) -- Philip Freneau (1752-1832) -- Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) -- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- Native American eloquence : negotiation and resistance. Canassatego ; Pontiac ; Logan ; Cherokee women ; Tecumseh --American literature, 1820-1865. Introduction ; Timeline -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- William Apess (1798-1839) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Native Americans : removal and resistance. Petalsharo ; Elias Boudinot ; The Cherokee memorials ; Black Hawk ; Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Women's rights and women writing. Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis ; Catharine E. Beecher ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Sojourner Truth ; Caroline Stansbury Kirkland ; Harriet Farley ; Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- Slavery, race, and the making of American literature. Thomas Jefferson ; David Walker ; Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm l William Lloyd Garrison ; Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis ; Angelina E. Grimké ; James M. Whitfield ; Martin B. Delany -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) -- Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) -- Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) -- Songs and poems from the Civil War. Anonymous folk song ; Julia Ward Howe ; Ethelinda Eliot Beers l John Greenleaf Whittier ; George Moses Horton ; Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --v. 2. 1865 to the present. Preface -- American literature, 1865-1914. Introduction ; Timeline -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Reconstruction. Jourdon Anderson ; Frances E. W. Harper ; Frederick Douglass ; Albion W. Tourgée ; Robert Brown Elliott -- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) -- Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910) -- Critical controversy : race and the ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Julius Lester ; David L. Smith ; Toni Morrison ; Alan Gribben ; Michiko Kakutani -- William Dean Howells (1837-1920) -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-c. 1914) -- Realism and naturalism. William Dean Howells ; Henry James ; Frank Norris ; Jack London ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- Kate Chopin (1850-1904) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) -- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865-1914) -- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Jack London (1876-1916) -- Zitkala-S̈a, (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) --American literature, 1914-1945. Introduction ; Timeline -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) -- Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Modernist manifestos. Mina Loy ; Ezra Pound ; T. S. Eliot ; Willa Cather ; Gertrude Stein -- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- Debating black art. Langston Hughes ; George S. Schuyler ; Zora Neale Hurston ; W. E. B. Du Bois -- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- E. E. Cummings (1894-1963) -- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- Ann Petry (1908-1997) -- Philip Roth (1933-2018) -- Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) -- Billy Collins (b. 1941) -- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) -- Louise Glũck (b. 1943) -- Alice Walker (b. 1944) -- Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) -- Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) -- Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) -- Juan Felipe Herrera (b. 1948) -- Joy Harjo (b. 1951) -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) -- Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) -- Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) -- George Saunders (b. 1958) -- Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) -- Claudia Rankine (b. 1963) -- Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) -- Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) -- Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) -- Viet Thanh Nguyen (b. 1971) -- Junot Díaz (b. 1968).The Shorter Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts--from Civil War songs to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N. K. Jemisin. And continuing its course of innovative and market-responsive changes, the anthology now offers resources to help instructors meet today's teaching challenges. Chief among these resources is InQuizitive, Norton's awarding-winning learning tool, which includes interactive questions on the period introductions and often-taught works in the anthology. In addition, the Shorter Tenth Edition maintains the anthology's exceptional editorial apparatus and generous and diverse slate of texts overall. Available in print and as an annotatable ebook, the Shorter Tenth Edition is ideal for online, hybrid, or in-person teaching. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: American literature.;
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