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 62 Edgar A. Guest 71 A Pamphlet Poets volume 85 School recitation in 1874 109 School recitation in 1941 122 New York City verse speaking choir 141 Recitation at the Lincoln School, 1942 160 Arbor Day recitation in 1908 172 Edwin ...
... Millay and Vachel Lindsay) who called themselves the “new poets,” and whose emergence in the 1910s as a self-conscious avant-garde had made them central to literary histories of the period. Unearthing how both the “new poetry” and its ...
... Millay and Edgar A. Guest. 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 ...
... Millay and Guest each combined elements of prescriptions for masculinity and femininity, this chapter likewise permits me to point out the complicated connections between gender and cultural constructions of the poet's roles. In the ...
... “Evangeline” perpetuating Longfellow's presence in a pageant of the 1920s. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Longfellow National Historic Site. Edna St. Vincent Millay as innocent. Library of Congress. Absence and Presence ̃51.
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 |