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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... Edwin Markham at the Lincoln Memorial 175 Women's Literary Club in 1905 181 Immigrant children in their classroom, 1909 195 Recitation at an Americanization program, 1940 204 Mary Antin 210 Poetry in an Armed Services edition 228 ...
... Edwin Markham's “The Man with the Hoe” (1899)—as an indication of the genre's strength.20 Howells's contemporaries who defended poetry's continued vigor on qualitative grounds tended to adopt the second line of argument, bypassing ...
... (Edwin Markham, Henry Van Dyke); to Gelett Burgess, author of the ditty beginning “I never saw a Purple Cow /I never Hope to See One . . .” For the Journal's editors and readers, the word “modern” encompassed them all—as did the word ...
... Edwin Markham, for one, declared that no child could have written the poems in her first book. The allegations prompted a flurry of interviews proving Crane's authorship, along with a threat from the girl's parents to sue their ...
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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 |