Talk:Carl Sandburg

E.T.

His face was used to model E.T. from the popular movie. Not a joke, look it up. 77.183.63.250 (talk)

Possible references

There is a significant need for some work with sources here; Carl Sandburg's page could be huge. I have done some looking for reference material. Since I am not familiar with Sandburg or any of these authors, rather than adding a flood of (possibly questionable) resources to the page, I think it useful to note them here:

    List of works published about Carl Sandburg

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The Rootebaga Stories para says he was hated by generations of kids - the word beloved was changed on 11 7 by someone.

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Harvest Poems 1910-1960 was published 1960, not 1950 212.100.250.212 21:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you anonymous editor ;) You're right and I fixed it. --Matthew 02:11, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

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In the Bob Dylan song "Talking World War III Blues," the lyric is "I think Abraham Lincoln said that," not "Carl Sandberg said that" as listed in this article. --Anonymous 13:24, 27 July 2006 166.108.253.11

I looked around. It looks like it is just in a particular live version of the song. I need to look for a better source, but here is one reference: [[1]].

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I took out a reference to MacArthur that was unclear. If the only thing the two of them have in common is they were in the same class in West Point, I doubt it deserves mention. Anyone who knows about a more substantial connection please feel free to elaborate. RampagingCarrot 02:19, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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I removed "Grass" from the list of Sandburg's works. The title and date were absolutely correct, but the rest of the list is of anthologies, biographies, and novels, and it seemed inappropriate to the list to add a single poem title. I'm not against adding single titles of poems, but that list could go on and on and would almost warrant a separate page, as with the (great!) list of references above. If I'm way off base here, please feel free to repost "Grass" and any other poetry.

I agree. I was thinking about whether "Grass" should be in the list. If someone starts adding individual poem titles, I will be inclined to make another section for them. Once that list gets too large, we will have to choose the best/most popular poems and put the big list in a different page. That doesn't mean that "Grass" isn't important. Depending on how much information about the poem itself is available, perhaps even another post would be good. --Matthew K 15:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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I separated some of the external links into a subdivision; I am trying to think of a classification for the others. The list is just getting too long without some sort of 'sorting.' --Matthew K 15:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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I aimed UIUC's link to the broader "Manuscripts" page so that both the Asheville and Connemara collections are available. Also because they currently have a grant to update their online collection information and availability, so the previous link may become outdated.

Sorry if I stepped on your toes here by modifying that link again; I see it could be useful to serious scholars researching Sandburg, but have doubts that that link is particularly useful to anyone else. I tried to make it clear where the link goes and what it is for. If you see a way to make it better yet, feel free. --Matthew K 13:51, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

No worries. I think having the links listed as they are now is probably the most accurate representation.

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Not to sound panicky, but what happened to all of the links at the bottom of the article? I'm pretty certain we'd wracked up more than three... Did I miss something?

I am a little surprised, but we seem to have attracted some vandals. I hadn't noticed that they had done that-- I only fixed the "Milwaukee, Germany" thing they had done. If you go to page history and then look through the 'last' links, you can see the progress of the page through each edit. Pretty sure I got everything back, though. --Matthew K 13:08, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

I saw in the history that they'd been removed, but I wasn't certain if it was vandalism or a ligitimate change in progress and that had petered out mid-change. The restoration looks good.

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Do we prefer the new picture or was the 'TIME' one better? Perhaps we should integrate the TIME picture lower in the article. The image of him on a TIME magazine gets across how important he was thought to be during his own time. Just curious if there are any preferences here. --Matthew K 01:32, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

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A childhood memory

My grandmother who lived her life in Galesburg, Illinois (birthplace of Carl Sandburg) used to recite the following poem that she atrributed to Sandburg. As I remember it, it goes like this (some details may not be right):

Sea rocks have green moss
Pine rocks have red berries
I have memories of you.
Speak to me of how you miss me...
Tell me the hours go long and slow.
Speak to me of the drag on your heart...
The iron drag of long days.
For I know hours empty as a beggars tin cup.
Empty as a soldier's sleeve with an arm lost.
Speak to me...

I always thought this was beautiful and I think it may be the only poem I have committed to memory in full as a result of her reciting it so well on special occasions/holidays (often as a result of requests). This poem certainly sounds like Sandburg but I have not been able to find it in any of the Sandburg books I have. Can anyone confirm that it's Sandburg and in what book/collection it might be published?

I'm glad there's a Wiki page on Sandburg. In particular I remember growing up with "Rootabaga Stories" being read to me by my mother as a child. --16:46, 31 March 2007 by Siraj555 (talk).

Your grandmother appears to have been correct about the author. I haven't checked the book itself, but uncp.edu has a page that says it is in Sandburg's book Smoke and Steel. I bet your local library would have a copy. They call the poem 'Home Thoughts.' The article says he traveled a lot and his longing for his wife when he was away was the inspiration for the poem. --Matthew K (talk) 03:01, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

List of References

Someone started an article called Carl Sandburg/References that lists articles and books about Sandburg. I nominated that article for deletion because that is not the proper citation method. However it would be a shame to lose that possibly useful information, so I have pasted it here:

[List that was formerly right here has been moved to List of works published about Carl Sandburg by Matthew K (talk)]

SmartGuy 14:00, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

'Listen' link that died

Carl Sandburg reading The People, Yes that was formerly linked to in the listen section no longer works. If this is a public domain item, can someone else find where it is and link to it again?

--Matthew K (talk) 02:38, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Possible external source

http://www.millikin.edu/aci/crow/chronology/sandburgbio.html seems like it would be a useful external source. If no one disagrees, let's add it to the growing list. --Matthew K 15:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)