A three page salute to the poet Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) written by Louis Untermeyer (1885 – 1977) marking the occasion of Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln. Untermeyer, famed anthologist in the republic of letters, was a great admirer of the poet and goes to some length pointing out how Sandburg's life experiences made his poetry stand out:
"A great rhapsodizer, like his predecessor Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg has freely ranged the country for the subject of his poetry. He has celebrated the native scene in practically all its phases, from windy shouting of the metropolis to the silence of the fog which moves over the city 'on little cat feet; from violent jazz fantasies, in which the drums, traps, banjos, and horns cry 'like the racing car slipping away from a motorcycle-cop' to delicate and hushed nocturnes in a deserted brickyard."
