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Carl Sandburg, the People's Pugilist
Carl Sandburg
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Writings from Charles H. Kerr's Journal The International Socialist Review, 1912 to 1917 ; Matthias Regan, Editor
出版Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 2010
主題Biography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Collections / American / GeneralLiterary Collections / EssaysLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN08828626939780882862699
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8EqNPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋aLike the Wobblyas favorite son, Joe Hill, Sandburg created a rabble-rousing persona in order to provoke a revolution in everyday life. Sandburgas prose brings the romantic figure of the modern poet as a polemicist, an orator for the people, together with the figure of the journalist as a gallant, acerbic muckraker. This figure becomes a vehicle from which to disseminate a radical vision of modern democracy. The articulation of this modern world-view was what composed the Charles H. Kerr Companyas ahouse stylea for its "Review," making it a forerunner of such crucial modernist literary organs as "Poetry" magazine; indeed, it was in the "Review," not "Poetry" magazine, that the best of Sandburgas Chicago Poems first appeared.a [From the introduction]