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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... T. S. Eliot, found its way into the textbooks and 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 ...
... T. S. Eliot, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, and Edgar Lee Masters, to name the more prominent experimentalists. To various degrees, and in tension with their desire to build an audience, those figures, the so-called (and self ...
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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 |