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Masters and Sandburg Meet as Lincoln Rivalries Grow
The Chicago meeting of Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg in March 1914 marked the start of a close, complex friendship. From early careers in law and journalism to Sandburg’s Lincoln biography and Masters’s Spoon River epitaphs, their bond endured amid sharp literary criticism and shared Chicago roots.
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Edward S. Delaplaine
Edgar Lee Masters
Chicago
Carl Sandburg
Masters
Sandburg
Sandburg Was
Galesburg
Illinois
Sweden
August Johnson
Carl
Johnson
William Jenning Bryan
Kansas
Maine
Havana
Sixth
Illinois Infantry
Puerto Rico
West Point
Douglas MacArthur
City Hall
Milwaukee
MacArthur
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt
Lombard College
Social-Democratic
Wisconsin
Lillian Steichen
Paula
Edward Steichen
System
Harriet Monroe
Court House
Poetry Magazine
Reedy
Spoon River
Webster Ford
Macmillan Company
New York
Whitman
Halstead Street
United States
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Stockholm
America
Chicago Daily News
Elmhurst
Lincoln
Man
Thomas Jefferson
Roger Brooke Taney
Taney
George Washington
Douglas
Knox College
Abe
Herbert
Michigan
Lake Michigan
University of Chicago
Coolidge
Library of Congress
Frederick
Mary Esther Tull
Hood College
Quest
Players Club
Gramercy Park
Thomas Johnson
Vachel Lindsay
Maryland
Robert van Gelder
Chen
Believue
Academy
Melrose Park
Ellen Coyne
Kansas City
Hilary
Pampel
Butthe
Pamper
Carl Sandburg Ad
Flat Rock
North Carolina