Acknowledgements 1
Chronology 1
Abbreviations 1
Introduction 1
Chapter One Common Origin and Early Wandering 1
Ⅰ．From Midwest and the Common Folk 1
Ⅱ．A Hobo in the West 6
Ⅲ．Wanderer-Jailbird's Throes:Predawn Darkness of a Poet 13
Chapter Two Socialistic Tendency 17
Ⅰ．Sandburg's Socialism Concept 17
Ⅱ．"An Ardent Socialist" 21
Ⅲ．Advocator of Democracy 39
Chapter Three The People,Yes,and"Yes"What? 45
Ⅰ．"Who and What Are the People?" 46
Ⅱ．Universalism:His Guide to Universal People 56
Ⅲ．Chicago Poems 63
Ⅳ．Cornhuskers 79
Ⅴ．Smoke and Steel 84
Ⅵ．Slabs of Sunburnt West 98
Ⅶ．The People,Yes 100
Ⅷ．"Yes"What? 121
Chapter Four The Popular Poetics on the Basis of the Commons 127
Ⅰ．His Poetic Theory and Social Function of Poetry 127
Ⅱ．The People as the Foundation Stone 131
Ⅲ．The Realistic Poet and His Circular Development 144
Ⅳ．"Sense of Nativeness"in Grain 162
Ⅴ．Common Subjects with Great Passion 167
Ⅵ．Heritage from Walt Whitman 173
Ⅶ．Unique Poetic Style 182
Ⅷ．Musicality in Sandburg's Poetry 194
Chapter Five The Sandburg Range and His Influence 204
Ⅰ．The Minstrel 204
Ⅱ．"Mr.Song-Bug's Sand-bang":The American Songbag 207
Ⅲ．Obliging the Young 212
Ⅳ．His Influence on Modern Poetry 213
Ⅴ．Among the People 216
Conclusion 222
Ⅰ．"Tradition Is a Bottomless Hole!" 222
Ⅱ．Yes!The People's Poet,the Popular Poetics 224
Bibliography 227
后记 230