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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... America ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02436-6 ISBN-10: 0-674-02436-2 Cataloging-in-Publication data is available from the Library of Congress. Designed by Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt For Tai, David, and Michael, with love Acknowledgments n Readers.
... Library is reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC, and the Princeton University Library. I have reprinted material from the Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special ...
... libraries of ordinary readers seemed a worthwhile endeavor when I began my research. I still think that is so, and I tell that story here. Nevertheless, as soon as I made my first foray into the records of early-twentieth- century ...
... libraries.'” Moreover, they omitted some self-published works emanating from printing companies. A comparison of PW's 1905 totals with a list for that year gleaned from the American Book Publishing Record (organized by Dewey Decimal ...
... libraries and schools, sustained the place of the genre in readers' lives. As Knowles asked in his Critic response, what school or municipal library could function without the complete works of Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier? The ...
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 |