该书从探讨文学的社会功能出发，从美国诗人卡尔·桑伯格的出身、社会实践、理想信念、诗歌及诗学等多角度深入研究卡尔·桑伯格以人民大众为基石的大众诗学及其特点和作用，并分析了诗人作为人民诗人成长的历程。卡尔·桑伯格的诗学体现了大众化的诗歌语言、亲民特性、西安市主义的诗歌主题以及格为人民所喜爱的诗歌技巧等。

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter One Common Origin and Early Wandering

 Ⅰ. From Midwest and the Common Folk

 Ⅱ. A Hobo in the West

 Ⅲ. Wanderer-Jailbird's Throes: Predawn Darkness of a Poet

Chapter Two Socialistic Tendency

 Ⅰ. Sandburg's Socialism Concept

 Ⅱ. "An Ardent Socialist"

 Ⅲ. Advocator of Democracy

Chapter Three The People, Yes,and "Yes" What?

 Ⅰ. "Who and What Are the People?"

 Ⅱ. Universalism: His Guide to Universal People

 Ⅲ. Chicago Poems

 Ⅳ. Cornhuskers

 Ⅴ. Smoke and Steel

 Ⅵ. Slabs of Sunburnt West

 Ⅶ. The People, Yes

 Ⅷ. "Yes" What?

Chapter Four The Popular Poetics on the Basis of the Commons

 Ⅰ. His Poetic Theory and Social Function of Poetry

 Ⅱ. The People as the Foundation Stone

 Ⅲ. The Realistic Poet and His Circular Development

 Ⅳ. "Sense of Nativeness" in Grain

 Ⅴ. Common Subjects with Great Passion

 Ⅵ. Heritage from Walt Whitman

 Ⅶ. Unique Poetic Style

 Ⅷ. Musicality in Sandburg's Poetry

Chapter Five The Saudburg Range and His Influence

 Ⅰ. The Minstrel

 Ⅱ. "Mr.Song-Bug's Sand-bang" : The American Songbag

 Ⅲ. Obliging the Young

 Ⅳ. His Influence on Modern Poetry

 Ⅴ. Among the People

Conclusion

 Ⅰ. "Tradition Is a Bottomless Hol~!" ~

 Ⅱ. Yes! The People's Poet, the Popular Poetics

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