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Born: 05/16/1888  Chicago
Died: 08/17/1954
Parents: Rudolph Sarett, Jeanette Sarett
Spouse: Nargaret (1st), Juliet (2nd), Alma (3rd)
Children: Lewis, Helen Stockdale

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Covenant with earth; a selection from the poetry of Lew Sarett, including six poems not previously published. With a foreword by Carl Sandburg - Selected and arranged by Alma Johnson Sarett.	Poetry	Adult	Gainesville, University of Florida Press	1956
	Speech: a High School Course - With James H. McBurney (Publication Years: 1943, 1947, 1951, 1956)	Non Fiction	Teen	Houghton Mifflin	1943
	Collected Poems	Poetry	Adult	Holt	1941
	Modern Speeches on Basic Issues	Non Fiction	Adult	Houghton Mifflin	1939
	Basic Principles of Speech - With W. T. Foster (Publication Years: 1936, 1946, 1958, 1966)	Non Fiction	Adult	Houghton Mifflin	1936
	Personal power through speech - Co-author: William T. Foster	Non Fiction	Adult	Houghton Mifflin company	1936
	Wings Against the Moon	Poetry	Adult	Holt	1931
	Slow Smoke	Poetry	Adult	Holt	1925
	The Box of God	Poetry	Adult	Holt	1922
	Many many moons; a book of wilderness poems, by Lew Sarett; with an introduction by Carl Sandburg.	Poetry	Adult	Holt	1920

What is the aim or goal of your writing: " At an early age, he moved to Marquette, Michigan where he learned a good deal about the woods." At 12, he and his mother moved back to Chicago, where he supported her and himself by a variety of menial jobs. This time of frustration heightened his feeling for poetry and nature. During high school in Benton Harbor, he spent all his free time in the woods. 2nd ed. says, "A few of us set out to devote our lives to re-creating for others the beauty of wild Amerca; to writing much and to speaking much of American backwoods and frontiers, of wolves and deer and bear, of loggers and voyageurs and Indians. I have written about these simplefolk of earth because I have lived with them, I know, I find pleasure in their companionship, and my spirit belongs to them. If these poems, therefore, convey to others a slight measure of the wild beauty of America, of her mountain ways and forest life, and if in some degree it gives others pleasure, I shall be glad. If it does not thus succeed--it was Walter Savage Landor who said, "There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.'" Said about him "even though Lew was born in Chicago and lived most of his life in Illinois, he thought of Michigan as his home state."

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