Carl Sandburg bibliography

This is a list of works written by the American poet, biographer, and journalist Carl Sandburg.[1]

Poetry

  • In Reckless Ecstasy (The Asgard Press, 1904). [2][3][a]
  • Incidentals (The Asgard Press, 1904). [b]
  • The Plaint of the Rose (The Asgard Press, 1908). [c]
  • Chicago Poems (Henry Holt, 1916).
  • Cornhuskers (Henry Holt, 1918).
  • Smoke and Steel (Harcourt, 1920).
  • Slabs of the Sunburnt West (Harcourt, 1922).
  • Selected Poems (Harcourt, 1926).
  • Good Morning, America (Harcourt, 1928).
  • The People, Yes (Harcourt, 1936).[4]
  • Bronze Wood (Grabhorn Press, 1941).
  • Poems of the Midwest (World Publishing Company, 1946).
  • The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, 1950).[3]
  • Harvest Poems (Harcourt, 1960).
  • Six New Poems and a Parable (University of Kentucky Press, 1961).
  • Honey and Salt (Harcourt, 1963).
  • Breathing Tokens (edited by Margaret Sandburg, Harcourt, 1978).
  • Fables, Foibles and Foobles (University of Illinois Press, 1989).
  • Billy Sunday and Other Poems (Harcourt, 1993).
  • Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, 1996).

Prose

  • You and Your Job (Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1908).[d]
  • Joseffy (1910).[e]
  • Clarence Darrow of Chicago (1919).
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (Harcourt, 1925).[3][5]
  • The American Songbag (Harcourt, 1927).[6][7][8]
  • Steichen the Photographer (Harcourt, 1929).
  • Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (Harcourt, 1932).
  • Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (Harcourt, 1939).[3][5]
  • Storm over the Land (Harcourt, 1942).
  • Home Front Memo (Harcourt, 1943).
  • Remembrance Rock (Harcourt, 1948).
  • Lincoln Collector: The Story of the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln Collection (Harcourt, 1949).
  • Always the Young Strangers (Harcourt, 1953).[9]
  • A Lincoln Preface (Harcourt, 1953).
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (Harcourt, 1954).[5]
  • The Sandburg Range (Harcourt, 1957).
  • The Letters of Carl Sandburg (Harcourt, 1968).
  • The Chicago Race Riots of 1919 (Harcourt, 1969).
  • Prairie-Town Boy (Harcourt, 1977)
  • Ever the Winds of Chance (University of Illinois Press, 1983).[10]
  • Carl Sandburg at the Movies (Scarecrow Press, 1985).
  • The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen & Carl Sandburg (University of Illinois Press, 1987).
  • The Movies Are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays (Lake Claremont Press, 2000).
  • The Sandburg Range (Harvest Books, 2001).
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years (2007)

Children's books

  • Rootabaga Stories (Harcourt, 1922).[3]
  • Rootabaga Pigeons (Harcourt, 1923).
  • Abe Lincoln Grows Up (Harcourt, 1928).[3]
  • Early Moon (Junior Literary Guild, 1930).
  • Potato Face (Harcourt, 1930).
  • Prairie-Town Boy (Harcourt, 1955).
  • Wind Song (Harcourt, 1960).
  • The Wedding Procession of the Rag doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It (Harcourt, 1967).
  • The Sandburg Treasury (Harcourt, 1970).
  • Rainbows Are Made (Harcourt, 1982).
  • More Rootabagas (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993).

Notes

  1. ^ Originally published as Charles Sandburg
  2. ^ Originally published as Charles Sandburg
  3. ^ Originally published as Charles Sandburg
  4. ^ Originally published as Charles Sandburg
  5. ^ Originally published as Charles Sandburg

References

  1. ^ "Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site - Works by Carl Sandburg". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  2. ^ Sandburg, Carl; Collamore, Bacon (1904). In reckless ecstasy. Harvard University. Galesburg, Ill., Asgard Press.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Sandburg Family Timeline - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  4. ^ "Carl Sandburg: The People Yes (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  5. ^ a b c "Carl Sandburg, the Biographer of Lincoln (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  6. ^ Sandburg, Carl (1927). The American Songbag. Osmania University, Digital Library Of India. Harcout Brace And Company.
  7. ^ "Sandburg and Music - Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  8. ^ Altman, Ross (2017-08-29). "CARL SANDBURG:AMERICA'S FIRST FOLK SINGER?". FolkWorks. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
  9. ^ Sandburg, Carl (1952). Always the Young Strangers. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
  10. ^ Sandburg, Carl (1983). Ever the Winds of Chance. Urbana, Il: University of Illinois Press.