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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... affirming nature's goodness—these are among the many examples I adduce to show how poetry functioned to carry, shape, and serve the feelings of American readers. The so-called “New Critical” interpreters of poetry in the mid-twentieth ...
... affirmed and justified a view of poetry as inherently distant from the average reader. As another commentator, Charles F. Thwing, insisted in the same period, “the elevated intellectual and emotional character of this noblest type of ...
... affirmed, in that world—the realm of “steady sellers” and schoolroom recitations, of audiences for sentimental, devotional, and political verse along with volumes of standards—poetry poured forth imagination, pleasure, and comfort even ...
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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 |