1916. Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, was virtually unknown to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. His work found beauty and glory in the simple America that surrounded him: the farms, industry, landscape, culture, and most importantly, the American people. Chicago Poems was Sandburg's first published book of poems. Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known verses as Chicago, Fog, To a Contemporary Bunkshooter, Who Am I? and Under the Harvest Moon as well as many others. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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Contents: The New Scholar; King Milkmaid; Answering Back; Little Christopher Columbus; Whiling Away Time; A Battle; Hat-Ball and Bullpen; The Defender; Pigeon Pot-Pie; Explosions; Jack and His Mother; Columbus and His Friends; Greenbank Wakes Up; Professor Susan; Crowing After Victory; An Attempt to Collect; An Exploring Expedition; Housekeeping Experiences; Ghosts; The Return Home; A Foot-Race for Money; The New Teacher; Chasing the Fox; Called to Account; An Apology; King's Base and a Spelling-Lesson; Unclaimed Top-Strings; and The Last Day of School, and the Last Chapter of the Story. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.