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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... Boston's Exchange Coffee-house on Independence Day, 1823, finished his remarks by delivering both a poem and an ode he had written for the observance. Charles Sprague, a Boston banker and author of the city's “Centennial Ode” (deemed “a ...
... Boston oratory, lauded Sprague's freedom from “confused conceptions” and “incongruous images.” Likewise, Benjamin's success as a reciter of verse derived partly from his decision to set aside his propensity for Wordsworth and instead ...
... Boston hotel in 1877 to mark the seventieth anniversary of John Greenleaf Whittier's birth. The purpose of the event was to sustain the prestige of the magazine by underscoring its association with four distinguished New England writers ...
... Boston and the democratic West. Be that as it may, Twain's Whittier Day message was that the schoolroom poets were the objects of undeserved adulation, and that the literary establishment was exploiting the credulity of the unsuspecting ...
... Boston publisher whose firm, Ticknor and Fields, pioneered modern techniques of book promotion. Longfellow himself kept a sharp eye on the audiences for various editions of his works. “It is doubtful,” Charvat asserted, “whether any ...
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 |