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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... Houghton Mifflin's publication of The Chief American Poets, edited by Curtis Hidden Page, which contained 713 pages exclusive of front and back matter. Nevertheless, certain firms undertook to promote both collections and singly ...
... Houghton Mifflin was sincere in professing its high-minded motives, but its associates also understood the contribution of poetry to an imprint's appeal as a token of culture. As Horace Scudder argued in urging a contract (at no cost to ...
... Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. For him, Badger's arrangement was a step up (especially because a friend agreed to foot the bill): a trade edition of five hundred copies, offering the promise of the audience for which Robinson was ...
... Houghton Mifflin was in an especially good position to profit from such “steady sellers” (as David D. Hall has termed them). In the 1870s, the firm had acquired the plates from James R. Osgood & Company of Osgood's lucrative 130-volume ...
... Houghton Mifflin enjoyed rights (though not exclusive ones) to the writings of the schoolroom group, which in the 1880s they began tailoring to the entire range of the re- print market. In 1886, the firm had in print nine different ...
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 |