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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... Edgar A. Guest 71 A Pamphlet Poets volume 85 School recitation in 1874 109 School recitation in 1941 122 New York City verse speaking choir 141 Recitation at the Lincoln School, 1942 160 Arbor Day recitation in 1908 172 Edwin Markham at ...
... Edgar A. Guest. Millay represents the poet as agent of a new kind of sociability—the urbane, bohemian style of social exchange endemic to New York's Greenwich Village, where early modernism thrived. At the same time, I describe Millay's ...
... Edgar Guest embodied similar contradictions. A poet of the domestic and the sentimental, he was, in his own way, also a master of the modern. Because Millay and Guest each combined elements of prescriptions for masculinity and ...
... Edgar Lee Masters, to name the more prominent experimentalists. To various degrees, and in tension with their desire to build an audience, those figures, the so-called (and self-identified) “new poets,” shared the conviction, as ...
... Edgar A. Guest, a writer who, notwithstanding Milford's claim, amassed even larger audiences for his verse than Millay did. At the same time he drew far greater scorn, not only from high modernists but also from “new” poets. Guest was ...
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 |