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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... Macmillan Company Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, is also reprinted by permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. The ...
... Macmillan issued the book in 1927. Although not usually given to literary enthusiasms, my father was delighted with his find, and spent many hours reciting (to me and other captives) lines from such remembered favorites as Thomas ...
... Macmillan (the American branch of the British house) built the strongest reputation for consistently doing so. In ... Macmillan's issuance of those works grew out of the house's professed ambition to foster literature; such an objective ...
... Macmillan, 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 ...
... Macmillan and other trade houses were active reprinters, 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 ...
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 |