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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... William L. Stidger 321 Sunday worship at Camp Kehonka 327 The lure of the “open” 343 John Burroughs at “Slabsides” 357 Robert Pinsky at a “Favorite Poem Project” event 386 SONGS of OURSELVES Introduction n My interest in the subject.
... William Cullen Bryant's “To a Waterfowl,” a poem of nineteenth-century New England that nevertheless expressed what I most wanted to say: “Thou'rt gone / The abyss of heaven / Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart / Deeply hath ...
... Williams called the “residual culture” of the past with the “dominant order” of the interwar period.12 A case study drawn from William S. Gray and Ruth Munroe's The Reading Interests and Habits of Adults (1929) offers a preview of the ...
... William Dean Howells, then editing the magazine, as well as Mark Twain, who had accepted Howells's invitation to deliver after-dinner remarks.1 The Whittier Day celebration attempted to consolidate the magazine's future by trading on ...
... William Charvat observed in 1950, the modern tendency to devalue poets popular in their time “arises in part from our persistent neglect of the reader as a force in literature.” As a guide to the reading public's regard for 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 |