Carl Sandburg Books in Order

Carl Sandburg is a celebrated American writer and editor, renowned for his distinctive poetry that captures the essence of the American spirit. As a masterful wordsmith, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his remarkable poetry and another for his critically acclaimed biography of Abraham Lincoln. Esteemed writer H.L. Mencken aptly describes Sandburg as "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat," a testament to his unwavering commitment to exploring the complexities and nuances of the American experience. Throughout his illustrious career, Sandburg has demonstrated a unique ability to convey the beauty and grit of American life, cementing his place as one of the country's most beloved and respected poets.

Bibliography verified: January 2026

Book Series by Carl Sandburg

  • #1
    Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(1892)
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    Edgar Allan Poe (By: Richard Wilbur)(1909)
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    Theodore Roethke (By: )(1969)
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    A. R. Ammons (By: David Lehman,A.R. Ammons)(1977)
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    William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)(1984)
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)(1991)
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  • #7
    Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems(1996)
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    Yvor Winters (By: Thom Gunn,Yvor Winters)(1999)
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    Karl Shapiro (By: John Updike,Karl Shapiro)(2003)
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    Poets of World War II (By: Various,Harvey Shapiro)(2003)
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    American Wits (By: John Hollander)(2003)
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    John Greenleaf Whittier (By: John Greenleaf Whittier)(2004)
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    Kenneth Fearing (By: Robert Polito,Kenneth Fearing)(2004)
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    Muriel Rukeyser (By: Muriel Rukeyser)(2004)
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    John Berryman (By: Kevin Young,John Berryman)(2004)
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    Poets of the Civil War (By: )(2005)
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    Emma Lazarus (By: Emma Lazarus)(2005)
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    Edith Wharton (By: Edith Wharton)(2005)
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  • #19
    The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (By: Gwendolyn Brooks,Elizabeth Alexander)(2005)
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    Cole Porter (By: Robert Kimball,Cole Porter)(2006)
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    Louis Zukofsky (By: Louis Zukofsky,Charles Bernstein)(2006)
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    Kenneth Koch (By: Ron Padgett,Kenneth Koch)(2007)
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  • #23
    American Sonnets (By: David Bromwich)(2007)
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    James Agee (By: James Agee,Andrew Hudgins)(2008)
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  • #25
    Poems from the Women's Movement (By: Honor Moore)(2009)
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    Ira Gershwin (By: Robert Kimball,Ira Gershwin)(2009)
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    Lyrics of the First Great Popular Songs (By: Stephen Collins Foster,Ken Emerson)(2010)
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    Countee Cullen (By: Major Jackson,Countee Cullen)(2010)
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    Amy Lowell (By: Honor Moore)(2012)
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  • #1
    Rootabaga Stories(1922)
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    Rootabaga Pigeons(1923)
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  • #3
    Abe Lincoln Grows Up(1928)
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    Early Moon(1930)
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    Prairie-Town Boy(1955)
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    Wind Song(1960)
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  • #7
    The Sandburg Treasury(1970)
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    Rainbows Are Made(1982)
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  • #9
    More Rootabaga Stories(1993)
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  • #10
    Incidentals(1904)
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  • #11
    In Reckless Ecstasy(1904)
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  • #12
    Chicago Poems(1916)
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    Cornhuskers(1918)
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    Smoke and Steel(1920)
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  • #15
    Slabs of the Sunburnt(1922)
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  • #16
    Poems of the Midwest(1946)
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  • #17
    The Complete Poems(1950)
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    Harvest Poems(1960)
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    Honey and Salt(1963)
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    Breathing Tokens(1978)
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  • #21
    Ever the Winds of Chance(1983)
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  • #22
    Fables, Foibles, and Foobles(1988)
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  • #23
    Arithmetic(1993)
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  • #24
    Billy Sunday And Other Poems(1993)
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  • #25
    Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems(1996)
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    Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote(1999)
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    Poetry for Kids(2017)
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  • #1
    You and Your Job(1908)
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  • #2
    Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years(1926)
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  • #3
    The American Songbag(1927)
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  • #4
    Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow(1932)
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  • #5
    Abraham Lincoln: The War Years(1939)
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  • #6
    Storm Over The Land(1942)
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  • #7
    Home Front Memo(1943)
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  • #8
    New American Songbag(1950)
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  • #9
    Always the Young Strangers(1953)
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  • #10
    A Lincoln Preface(1953)
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  • #11
    The Letters of Carl Sandburg(1968)
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  • #12
    The Chicago Race Riots of 1919(1969)
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    Ever the Winds of Chance(1983)
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    Carl Sandburg at the Movies(1985)
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  • #15
    The Poet and the Dream Girl (With: Lilian Steichen)(1987)
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    The Movies Are(2000)
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    The Sandburg Range(2001)
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    Lincoln Collector(2012)
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  • #1
    Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(1977)
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  • #2
    Robert Frost (By: Robert Frost)(1994)
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  • #3
    Emily Dickinson (By: Emily Dickinson)(1994)
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    Edgar Allan Poe (By: Edgar Allan Poe)(1995)
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    Carl Sandburg(1995)
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)(1998)
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)(1999)
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  • #8
    Robert Louis Stevenson (By: Robert Louis Stevenson)(2000)
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    William Shakespeare (By: William Shakespeare)(2000)
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    Lewis Carroll (By: Lewis Carroll)(2000)
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  • #11
    Rudyard Kipling (By: Rudyard Kipling)(2000)
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    Edward Lear (By: Edward Lear)(2001)
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  • #13
    American Poetry (By: John Hollander)(2002)
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  • #14
    William Butler Yeats (By: W.B. Yeats)(2002)
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  • #15
    Robert Browning (By: Robert Browning)(2003)
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(2003)
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    William Wordsworth (By: William Wordsworth)(2003)
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  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson (By: Alfred Tennyson)(2003)
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  • #19
    William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)(2003)
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  • #20
    Animal Poems (By: John Hollander)(2004)
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  • #21
    Wallace Stevens (By: Wallace Stevens)(2004)
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  • #22
    The Seasons (By: John N. Serio)(2004)
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  • #23
    Langston Hughes (By: Langston Hughes)(2006)
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  • #24
    William Blake (By: William Blake)(2007)
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  • #25
    Poetry for Young People (By: Maya Angelou)(2007)
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    Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg(2008)
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    African American Poetry (By: Karen Barbour)(2013)
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    Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(2017)
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  • #29
    War: An Anthology(1969)
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  • #30
    Beat the Drum, Independence Day Has Come: Poems for the Fourth of July(1977)
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    The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales(1993)
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    100 Best-Loved Poems(1995)
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    Baseball: a Literary Anthology(2002)
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    Sandburg also published poems and stories for children and worked with his brother-in-law Edward Steichen on the 1955 published “The Family of Man.”(19)

About Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg is a celebrated American writer and editor, renowned for his distinctive poetry that captures the essence of the American spirit. As a masterful wordsmith, he has won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his remarkable poetry and another for his critically acclaimed biography of Abraham Lincoln. Esteemed writer H.L. Mencken aptly describes Sandburg as "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat," a testament to his unwavering commitment to exploring the complexities and nuances of the American experience. Throughout his illustrious career, Sandburg has demonstrated a unique ability to convey the beauty and grit of American life, cementing his place as one of the country's most beloved and respected poets.

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