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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... aesthetic qualities. Often their reading was eclectic, mingling texts that varied in style, structure, craft, provenance and, by contemporary critics' measures, literary value. To re- store to view the mixture of “steady sellers” and ...
... aesthetic work of poetic language (the way, for instance, sound and metaphor rendered beauty and insight). A later generation of literary critics has emphasized the “cultural work” of texts, particularly their role in constructing ...
... access, has, for the most part, slipped from view. Together with the experiences of verse readers who did not share his gender, class, or aesthetic preferences, Mr. M's world deserves to be restored to the social, Introduction ̃ 15.
... aesthetic commitments.13 Similarly, Houghton Mifflin balanced sales income against the desirability of sustaining the house's reputation as “publisher of the best in American literature,” deciding that “poets were imperative” while ...
... aesthetic rather than commercial reasons. Small, May- nard, another Boston house devoted to the arts, began by issuing an edition of Leaves of Grass (1897), then purchased Stone and Kimball's list in 1899, and acquired the poems of ...
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 |