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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... University Library by permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, and the Princeton University Library. All material from the Macmillan Company Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York ...
... University Press, 1998), and in “'They Flash Upon That Inward Eye': Poetry Recitation and American Readers,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 160, part 2 (1997), 273–300, reprinted in Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas ...
... publishing firms, but instead the production, distribution, and reception of the entire range of written communication. With increasing momentum over the last fifteen years, book historians have tackled such subjects as authorship ...
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 |