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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... world that print created for ministers and laity alike in colonial Massachusetts, extended the Europeanists' enterprise across the Atlantic. Whether about Europe, America, or other parts of the globe, those pathbreaking studies and the ...
... World War I, they preserved a large space for legacies of the nineteenth century, intertwining what Raymond Williams called the “residual culture” of the past with the “dominant order” of the interwar period.12 A case study drawn from ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. ences, Mr. M's world deserves to be restored to the social, emotional, and human history of American culture. In carrying out that charge, the following pages confirm the tantalizing ...
... world, and know the muse only.”3 In that respect, poets were supreme exemplars of “self-reliance,” detached from the pressure for conformity to the expectations of others. The separation was not total; seers performed a social mission ...
... World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As the author of the ode commissioned for the occasion, she watched with special delight as the actress Sarah Cow- ell LeMoyne (“six feet tall, handsome, and vocally magnificent”) moved toward ...
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 |