tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897228097627164771.post8779109145310596617..comments2024-03-26T01:52:45.563-07:00Comments on Fred's Place: Carl Sandburg: Southern Pacific, a poemFredhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10233846613173866140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897228097627164771.post-36937204641600025962014-04-23T15:51:20.081-07:002014-04-23T15:51:20.081-07:00RT,
That could be as I don't hear much about ...RT,<br /><br />That could be as I don't hear much about him anymore. Writers go in and out of fashion, so Sandburg may disappear for a few decades or more. John Donne had disappeared for several centuries until TS Eliot resurrected him in the early 20th century. Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10233846613173866140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-897228097627164771.post-65208371761893443782014-04-23T10:21:07.107-07:002014-04-23T10:21:07.107-07:00Without elaboration . . . which perhaps I will jot...Without elaboration . . . which perhaps I will jot down someday . . . I will say this about Sandburg: He was (and is) both over-rated and under-rated as a poet (especially because of his production of both really good and really bad poems; that is his paradox. Also, I doubt that Sandburg will be remembered and read in another generation. He will go the way of Longfellow -- once popular but no longer much remembered.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com