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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... Weekly queried in noting the deaths in the same year of Whittier and Whitman, “Who shall take their place? Not in this generation can the void left in literature by their loss be ever even partially filled.” Ten years later, writing in ...
... Weekly deprecated the quality of most new books of verse. In 1897, for example, PW averred that the poetic “contributions” during the previous year were “scarcely worthy of notice.” The trade journal's overview of poetry published in ...
... Weekly calculated that the number of poetry and drama titles (unfortunately for the historian, the trade journal amalgamated those categories) issued by all American book publishers in 1911 was more than two and a half times greater ...
... Weekly and Monroe, Badger and similar operations did not qualify as producers of “good” poetry; they deserved condemnation for contributing to poetry's “decline” by flooding the market with inferior works while exploiting men and women ...
... Weekly editor George William Curtis, who republished it with illustrations. Carleton followed up with Farm Ballads (1873), which sold 40,000 copies in short order. That volume contained his most famous poem, “Over the Hill to the Poor ...
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 |