Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
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... figures do not measure: in school, for instance, everyone read poems every year. As I had noted in my father's case, poetry also survived in memory even when readers no longer confronted words on the page. Thus it offered the chance to ...
... figures, Spiller and his colleagues followed a mainly linear progression from romanticism to realism (with its regional variants) to the “new poetry” and its successors. Since the 1970s, the canon debates and the impact of postmodern ...
... figure in my account not so much as explanations of reading differences but as categories to be reckoned with in charting the many factors that shape dissemination and reception of a text. To my way of thinking, to reject “exclusive ...
... figures should be thought of as actors who, once they take the stage, stay there—sometimes in shadow, sometimes brought forward for a reprise—while a shifting spotlight shines on other members of the troupe. The first chapter briefly ...
... figures in Chapter 6, “Alien and Intimate”—specifically, how, from the early days of free verse onward, modernist obscurity formed a barrier to engagement with poetic texts that certain readers would not cross. But I also look at the ...
Contents
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Celebrity and Cipher | 75 |
Alien and Intimate | 92 |
Listen My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools | 107 |
I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals | 165 |
Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends | 242 |
Gods in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse | 287 |
Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing OutofDoors | 336 |
Favorite Poems and Contemporary Readers | 381 |
Notes | 407 |
Index | 451 |