Acknowledgements
Chronology
Abbreviations
Introduction
ChapterOneCommonOriginandEarlyWandering
Ⅰ.FromMidwestandtheCommonFolk
Ⅱ.AHobointheWest
Ⅲ.Wanderer-JailbirdsThroes:PredawnDarknessofaPoet
ChapterTwoSocialisticTendency
Ⅰ.SandburgsSocialismConcept
Ⅱ."AnArdentSocialist"
Ⅲ.AdvocatorofDemocracy
ChapterThreeThePeople,Yes,and"Yes"What?
Ⅰ."WhoandWhatArethePeople?"
Ⅱ.Universalism:HisGuidetoUniversalPeople
Ⅲ.ChicagoPoems
Ⅳ.Cornhuskers
Ⅴ.SmokeandSteel
Ⅵ.SlabsofSunburntWest
Ⅶ.ThePeople,Yes
Ⅷ."Yes"What?
ChapterFourThePopularPoeticsontheBasisoftheCommons
Ⅰ.HisPoeticTheoryandSocialFunctionofPoetry
Ⅱ.ThePeopleastheFoundationStone
Ⅲ.TheRealisticPoetandHisCircularDevelopment
Ⅳ."SenseofNativeness"inGrain
Ⅴ.CommonSubjectswithGreatPassion
Ⅵ.HeritagefromWaltWhitman
Ⅶ.UniquePoeticStyle
Ⅷ.MusicalityinSandburgsPoetry
ChapterFiveTheSaudburgRangeandHisInfluence
Ⅰ.TheMinstrel
Ⅱ."Mr.Song-BugsSand-bang":TheAmericanSongbag
Ⅲ.ObligingtheYoung
Ⅳ.HisInfluenceonModernPoetry
Ⅴ.AmongthePeople
Conclusion
Ⅰ."TraditionIsaBottomlessHole!"
Ⅱ.Yes!ThePeoplesPoet,thePopularPoetics
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