Poet Carl Sandburg interview (1956)

Although his father never learned to read and seemed to question the inherent value of literacy, Carl Sandburg’s mother loved books and encouraged their appreciation.
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Ultimately, Sandburg rose to the highest literary circles of his day-and yet he was able to come to terms with his father’s tradesman persona and view him as a man “superior to books.” So he says in this absorbing 1958 interview. The conversation, steered by the network’s Director of Public Affairs Service Programs, Edward Stanley, encompasses early political experiences from Sandburg’s childhood; his college years and subsequent hobo wanderlust; his attempt to discover a basic definition of poetry; and detailed discussions centered on his Lincoln series. Sandburg also reads his poem “Phizzog” and performs folk songs.
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  • @ManufacturingIntellect
    @ManufacturingIntellect4 жыл бұрын

    Check out these Carl Sandburg books on Amazon! Selected Poems: geni.us/bMa6de Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years: geni.us/vpbzL Join us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/ManufacturingIntellect Donate Crypto! commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/868d67d2-1628-44a8-b8dc-8f9616d62259 Checking out the affiliate links above helps me bring even more high quality videos to you by earning me a small commission on your purchase. If you have any suggestions for future content, make sure to subscribe on the Patreon page. Thank you for your support!

  • @staringatthesun861
    @staringatthesun8619 ай бұрын

    I realize he's a poet, so his eloquence with words was likely unmatched even by anyone of his generation. But boy do I wish there was someone who spoke like this today. There is such a cadence to his speech that he's basically speaking with melody, as others have pointed out. It's easy to forget that speaking is an art form in itself.

  • @jefflafferty7472
    @jefflafferty74724 жыл бұрын

    I remember my grandma speaking with melody. Not all the time, but especially when she told stories of her past. Rapturous it was. Sure do miss her.

  • @jasonhurd4379
    @jasonhurd43794 жыл бұрын

    What a fascinating way of speaking this man had. Suffused with music and poetry, arising long before radio and television began ironing out regional variations and dialects.

  • @pahwraith

    @pahwraith

    3 жыл бұрын

    He was the best american poet of his generation.

  • @Reitz86

    @Reitz86

    3 жыл бұрын

    Illinois Swede

  • @Dana9437

    @Dana9437

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Reitz86 yes, his beautiful, lilting voice is something to behold.

  • @tonyfleming4268
    @tonyfleming42682 жыл бұрын

    This was throughly enjoyable. I am impressed with his singing voice and intellect. I can tell he held Lincoln in high esteem and reverence.

  • @Einstein1414
    @Einstein1414 Жыл бұрын

    A man of incredible majesty and poetic excellence. His knowledge of life, he'd earned. His knowledge of Lincoln, he shared, Thank God. A master of the subject. We'll not see his like again.

  • @DanFrechette
    @DanFrechette4 жыл бұрын

    This man loves words.. spoken and written..

  • @johnnycreighton29

    @johnnycreighton29

    2 жыл бұрын

    From a son of the 'Burg (where CS was born)... Hope you don't mind a little share. It's another way I'd like to care: "When the sidewalk finally ends are there ever many friends? Though you hope there's still a maybe, and you'd wish't you'd made amends. "Where does the sidewalk really end? Emerging from the dark & deep, feels like you got the bends. "BEYOND​​ the edge of town, hard not to wear a stony frown. Lonely days & endless nights gradually wear you down." John Creighton, formerly k a cafégroundzer0 © 2022 all rights reserved, thanks. "I reckon I'd better be like a brother grimm and get gritty with it. She beckons the other he and gets dizzy with him. We step off the kerb & make chizzy fo' trips, we dyin' like flies in the window, so sick of this shit." 🕊️🌹🎶🦊⚱️💌🌍🌆 ©2022 by John Creighton, formerly known as cafégroundzer0 All rights reserved.

  • @DanFrechette

    @DanFrechette

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@johnnycreighton29 Thanks very much for sharing

  • @envisionseattlewomen
    @envisionseattlewomen Жыл бұрын

    Astounding

  • @shermohd932
    @shermohd9324 жыл бұрын

    The Poet possesses clear & unique grip of words with a certain thought. Level of confidence for a thought is matchless...Inspiring..

  • @jebhallett7607
    @jebhallett76073 жыл бұрын

    Years ago, I met his daughter, Helga, who was married to Dr Crile of the Cleveland Clinic heritage. She was a wonderfully “hippy” woman in her later years!!! What an enchanting evening together!!! Jeb Hallett

  • @tulayamalavenapi4028

    @tulayamalavenapi4028

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow!

  • @tulayamalavenapi4028
    @tulayamalavenapi4028 Жыл бұрын

    Here , at 78 years old, Carl kept his health very nicely.

  • @ericachristian4012
    @ericachristian4012 Жыл бұрын

    One of my faveorite figures in history. I love his poems. This is a great video thanks for providing this educational masterpiece!

  • @susancerezo401
    @susancerezo4013 ай бұрын

    An amazing and very beloved writer........thank you so much for this !!!!!!!❤

  • @hatzlmike1
    @hatzlmike1 Жыл бұрын

    so beautiful.

  • @spensert4933
    @spensert49334 жыл бұрын

    2:09 growing up in IL - local republican politics 6:30 starting writing, college and mentor teacher 9:57 starts reading poems. So glad this exists. Poetry is made by people.

  • @46metube
    @46metube Жыл бұрын

    Amazing. And comforting.

  • @icecreamforcrowhurst
    @icecreamforcrowhurst10 ай бұрын

    Imagine his wife asking him what he wants for breakfast: “Well dear, that’s got me thinkin’ about me old Dad grinding flour on a Kentucky millstone and the maple trees bending in the winter breeze…” Wife: “Ok dear, I’ll make pancakes.”

  • @local-teen
    @local-teen4 жыл бұрын

    This seems to be the man upon which Garrison Keillor modeled himself. It's almost uncanny.

  • @jayleajones8483
    @jayleajones84833 жыл бұрын

    I'm from the town Carl Sandburg was born in. We even have a community college named after him.

  • @JingleJangleJam

    @JingleJangleJam

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is all I've heard from him, but from what I've little heard, the way that he mysteriously plays that guitar and sings away the end of the video, was more like a character in a book that a human being, I would imagine that he would meander, after this, mysteriously to vanish without a trace from any sight, into the distance, while his music whistled mysteriously away to become part of the naked scenery around it. Then for the town around him to be so awed, that it will build a huge structure in his place, just at the crossroads from where he had visited, and that crossroads forever become a school due to the song he sang. That's is the mysterious story I'll dream about because you didn't leave a note or any information about how the school was founded other than that it did got founded from his name.

  • @utahdan231

    @utahdan231

    3 жыл бұрын

    Visited a month ago. A Very pretty town. The loveliest result of this trip was to discover a great poet and a great person. I saw every house he lived in. I got the book with his all poems. I could have been a big loss for me as an outsider not to know his poetry.

  • @jayleajones8483

    @jayleajones8483

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@utahdan231 Glad to hear that you went to Galesburg & visited his house.

  • @vanleeuwenhoek

    @vanleeuwenhoek

    Жыл бұрын

    Great Uncle Benny owned the Hotel Custer in Galesburg. He maintained the Carl Sandburg suite, complete with his guitar. It was stolen.

  • @CaesarDarias
    @CaesarDarias3 жыл бұрын

    “... a hot first draft.” Love it.

  • @rievans57
    @rievans573 жыл бұрын

    Guitar player. Talented man!

  • @bnlang898
    @bnlang8984 жыл бұрын

    amazing person

  • @iancunningham5576
    @iancunningham55763 жыл бұрын

    Everytime I'm inspired to write. I read Carl first.

  • @danielhetue6968
    @danielhetue6968Ай бұрын

    Even Sandburg had a nice clear voice in his elderly years.

  • @marcsmirnoff936
    @marcsmirnoff936Ай бұрын

    Ha-what a hoot! What a treat!

  • @gregorysullivan7175
    @gregorysullivan71753 жыл бұрын

    A time gone by. Horses horses everywhere horses. Folksy stuff, A bit of splashy and it works. Does anybody know the name of that last song.

  • @disgruntledpedant2755
    @disgruntledpedant27553 жыл бұрын

    If someone walked up and talked to you like this, you'd be like what.in.the.fuck, man????

  • @diaspo
    @diaspo4 жыл бұрын

    The People's poet.

  • @joemicoletti
    @joemicoletti6 ай бұрын

    Fascinating, and kinda weird, man

  • @anastasiabananastasia
    @anastasiabananastasia4 жыл бұрын

    nice

  • @nurlatifahmohdnor8939
    @nurlatifahmohdnor89396 ай бұрын

    Page 504 Poet Carl Sandburg called Chicago the "City of the Big Shoulders."

  • @nurlatifahmohdnor8939

    @nurlatifahmohdnor8939

    6 ай бұрын

    The name Chicago comes from the Indian word Checagou.

  • @dafaveri
    @dafaveri4 жыл бұрын

    Walt Whitman, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, THOMAS (what?), Edwin Ford Piper. Can anyone help with that poet's name which is missing to my ears?

  • @joshholm3274

    @joshholm3274

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thomas Hornsby Ferril

  • @dafaveri

    @dafaveri

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joshholm3274 thanks

  • @icecreamforcrowhurst
    @icecreamforcrowhurst9 ай бұрын

    He seems to speak with a bit of an Irish accent. I find this rather curious given that he came from Scandinavian roots.

  • @harryputang5352
    @harryputang53523 жыл бұрын

    A haus. That was my love before automobiles Bartender hey Another!

  • @egonrhoodie2745
    @egonrhoodie27453 жыл бұрын

    Friends with Marilyn Monroe!!!!! 😇🙏🎉🎊💞💕😎

  • @marcnadeau4657
    @marcnadeau46572 жыл бұрын

    No wonder Marilyn Monroe adore him!

  • @disgruntledpedant2755
    @disgruntledpedant27553 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like he's reading a poem. But he ain't

  • @smilergrogan1725
    @smilergrogan17253 жыл бұрын

    What a strange guy.

  • @Poemsapennyeach
    @Poemsapennyeach3 жыл бұрын

    What kind of a way of talking is this?

  • @dcmurphy5157

    @dcmurphy5157

    3 жыл бұрын

    An interesting one.

  • @Ghost-vg6iq

    @Ghost-vg6iq

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dcmurphy5157 for sure😀

  • @Dana9437

    @Dana9437

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Ghost-vg6iq Swedish accent...both parents were Swedes.

  • @hatzlmike1
    @hatzlmike1 Жыл бұрын

    its insanely global now....so sad Lincoln knew this....Nietske wrote and laughed and died....the sadness of demmcomms congress is insane