| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-12页 |
| Chronology | 第12-19页 |
| Abbreviations | 第19-20页 |
| Introduction | 第20-25页 |
| Chapter 1 Common Origin and Early Wandering | 第25-39页 |
| Ⅰ. From Midwest and the Common Folk | 第25-29页 |
| Ⅱ. AHobo in the West | 第29-35页 |
| Ⅲ. Wanderer-Jailbird’s Throes: Predawn Darkness of a Poet | 第35-39页 |
| Chapter 2 Socialistic Tendency | 第39-64页 |
| Ⅰ. Sandburg’s Socialism Concept | 第39-42页 |
| Ⅱ. “An Ardent Socialist” | 第42-59页 |
| Ⅲ. Advocator of Democracy | 第59-64页 |
| Chapter 3 The People, Yes, and “Yes”What? | 第64-144页 |
| Ⅰ. “Who and What Are the People?” | 第64-74页 |
| Ⅱ. Universalism: His Guide to Universal People | 第74-81页 |
| Ⅲ. Chicago Poems | 第81-97页 |
| Ⅳ. Cornhuskers | 第97-102页 |
| Ⅴ. Smoke and Steel | 第102-115页 |
| Ⅵ. Slabs of Sunburnt West | 第115-117页 |
| Ⅶ. The People, Yes | 第117-138页 |
| Ⅷ. “Yes”What? | 第138-144页 |
| Chapter 4 The Poetics on the Basis of the Commons | 第144-219页 |
| Ⅰ. His Poetic Theory and Social Function of Poetry | 第144-147页 |
| Ⅱ. The People as the Foundation Stone | 第147-160页 |
| Ⅲ. The Realistic Poet and His Circular Development | 第160-179页 |
| Ⅳ. “Sense of Nativeness”in Grain | 第179-184页 |
| Ⅴ. Common Subjects with Great passion | 第184-189页 |
| Ⅵ. Heritage from Walt Whitman | 第189-198页 |
| Ⅶ. His Unique Poetic Style | 第198-209页 |
| Ⅷ. Musicality in His Poetry | 第209-219页 |
| Chapter 5 The Sandburg Range and His Influence | 第219-236页 |
| Ⅰ. The Minstrel | 第219-222页 |
| Ⅱ. “Mr. Song-Bug’s Sand-bang”:The American Songbag | 第222-226页 |
| Ⅲ. Obliging the Young | 第226-227页 |
| Ⅳ. His Influence on Modern Poetry | 第227-231页 |
| Ⅴ. Among the People | 第231-236页 |
| Conclusion | 第236-241页 |
| Ⅰ. “Tradition Is a Bottomless Hole!” | 第236-237页 |
| Ⅱ. Conclusion: The People’s Poet, Yes! | 第237-241页 |
| Notes | 第241-248页 |
| Bibliography | 第248-251页 |
