目录 AcknowledgementsChronologyAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One Common Origin and Early WanderingⅠ. From Midwest and the Common FolkⅡ. A Hobo in the WestⅢ. Wanderer-Jailbirds Throes: Predawn Darkness of a PoetChapter Two Socialistic TendencyⅠ. Sandburgs Socialism ConceptⅡ. \"An Ardent Socialist\"Ⅲ. Advocator of DemocracyChapter Three The People, Yes,and \"Yes\" What? Ⅰ.\"Who and What Are the People?\"Ⅱ. Universalism: His Guide to Universal PeopleⅢ. Chicago PoemsⅣ. CornhuskersⅤ. Smoke and SteelⅥ. Slabs of Sunburnt WestⅦ. The People, YesⅧ. \"Yes\" What?
Chapter Four The Popular Poetics on the Basis of the CommonsⅠ. His Poetic Theory and Social Function of PoetryⅡ. The People as the Foundation StoneⅢ. The Realistic Poet and His Circular DevelopmentⅣ. \"Sense of Nativeness\" in GrainⅤ. Common Subjects with Great PassionⅥ. Heritage from Walt WhitmanⅦ. Unique Poetic StyleⅧ. Musicality in Sandburgs PoetryChapter Five The Saudburg Range and His InfluenceⅠ. The MinstrelⅡ. \"Mr.Song-Bugs Sand-bang\" : The American SongbagⅢ. Obliging the YoungⅣ. His Influence on Modern PoetryⅤ. Among the PeopleConclusionⅠ. \"Tradition Is a Bottomless Hole!\"Ⅱ. Yes! The Peoples Poet, the Popular PoeticsBibliography后记
内容摘要 Sandburgs origin——the very ordinary family and the bottom of the society works much to lead to his life long concern for and connection with the ordinary people, playing a role in the formation and growth of his popular poetics. This part discusses his family background and his early wanderings in the west as a hobo and experiences before he came to Chicago to start his career, which resulted in his profound sympathy with the commons and laid a solid foundation for him to become the peoples poet. Sandburg was born in prairie Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878. His father, Carl August Sandburg, was a Swedish immigrant ( his mother, a Swedish immigrant too, a housewife and once a hotel maid) and one of thousands of semiliterate immigrants who came to the United States in search of American dream, only to find he had to endure, like many of his group, inhuman working conditions and the humiliation from the social system ...
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