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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... branch of the British house) built the strongest reputation for consistently doing so. In 1905, for example, it brought out Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish and Minor Poems and The Song of Hiawatha (both in its series entitled ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. Anna Hempstead Branch's The Shoes That Danced and a 312- page volume of The Poems of Trumbull Stickney. Like Macmillan, Houghton Mifflin was sincere in professing its high-minded motives ...
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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 |