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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... 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 participation ...
... Millay's reputation as a modern sophisticate by examining Edmund Wilson's slightly fictionalized portrayal of her as Rita Cavanaugh in I Thought of Daisy (1919). The narrator of the book, a young man Wilson both satirizes and resembles ...
... Millay's sophisticated image was entangled with another construction of the poet: one that connected authenticity to innocence, and particularly to the ostensible attributes of girlhood. Wilson's description of Rita Cavanaugh after the ...
... Millay's upbringing that appeared in the November 1930 issue of American Girl, a publication of the Girl Scout movement. The author reworked the hardships Millay faced as a child into a Norman Rockwellesque idyll of “cheerful ...
... Millay's work in the 1930s. The 33,000 readers who bought Millay's Fatal Interview (1931) in its first ten weeks in print and those who, despite mixed reviews, snapped up 66,500 copies of Wine from These Grapes (1934) in its first seven ...
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 |