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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... Monroe's lines. The performance—a third celebrated moment encapsulating the history of poetry in American culture—unfolded before distinguished statesmen, civic leaders, and other luminaries. Afterwards, Monroe ac- cepted a laurel ...
... Monroe's aspirations, combined with her Chicago society connections, led her to claim that the dedication ceremonies ... Monroe experienced a protracted nervous illness. What was perhaps worse, one of the organizers began lobbying to ...
... Monroe and her associate editor, Alice Corbin Henderson, announced that they would read “with special interest poems of modern significance.” The early years of Poetry testify that they did so. In addition to Ezra Pound, whose stormy ...
... Monroe and her contemporaries blamed publishers and editors for devaluing their art. The continuing practice of allocating leftover space in periodicals to verse, Monroe believed, reflected editors' cavalier attitude toward poets' work ...
... Monroe's case, the complaints about publishers may also be traced to the series of rejections she received between 1895 and 1910.) American poetry in the period between 1890 and 1912 appears moribund only if the measure of health is 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 |