Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was an American folklorist, historian, poet, and novelist. It was while he was studying at the Galesburg-based Lombard College that he began to write prose and poetry. His very first booklets were published by Philip Green Wright his favorite professor in college.

The best place to start is the American Poets Project series, the earliest of Carl Sandburg's multi-book series: it opens with Walt Whitman (1892) and runs to 29 books across 1892–2012, ending with Amy Lowell (2012).

Carl Sandburg has 110 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1892 and 2017. 57 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the American Poets Project series with 29 books — and 53 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Carl Sandburg's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are American Poets Project (1892–2012, 29 books).

This guide splits Carl Sandburg's 110 books into 2 named series and 53 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: American Poets Project (29 books, 1892–2012); Poetry for Young People (28 books, 1977–2017).