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The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. ture, her modernist sensibility, and her approach to life, she has ... POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE Acknowledgments ̃ ix.
... POETRY IN PLACE AND PRACTICE 7 Listen, My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools 107 8 I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals 165 9 Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends 242 10 God's in His ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. alongside poetic innovation and experimentation. That is, for the reading public the 1920s were as much an era of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as of Eliot. Furthermore, while poets, critics ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. tribute to that more inclusive account of American literature (while retaining the historian's faith in chronology). At the same time, I intend to show how the social history of reading ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. titudes toward poets and their work. Although I introduce these ... American poetry. I also show how the pessimism occasioned by the deaths of eminences such as Longfellow and Tennyson and ...
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 |