What is your opinion on Carl Sandburg?

[davg2000]

I believe that I first learned about Carl Sandburg the poet in junior high school. The poem was “Fog.” Later, as a teacher of American literature, I taught his poetry to many high school students. He was a marvelous poet, clearly similar in some ways to Walt Whitman. At some early point I knew of his connection to Lincoln, but I didn’t learn until college of the problems that academic historians had with his Lincoln biography. I do think that he wrote about Lincoln for the popular reader, and any evaluation of his biography needs to be made in light of that.