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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... anthology in a local used bookstore. Entitled Through Magic Casements, the blue-and-gold-covered volume was the work of two Rochester English teachers who attained a national audience after Macmillan issued the book in 1927. Although ...
... Anthology of American Literature (1998), for instance, contains a “sheaf” of popular sentimental poems by late- nineteenth-century women. The Norton Anthology of American Literature (second edition, 1985) carefully specifies that ...
... anthologies generally register the results of literary production. Even in their postmodern manifestations, they inevitably constitute exercises in canon formation by featuring selected works. In this book, by contrast, I emphasize the ...
... anthology like Through Magic Casements mirrors the se- lection principles of its compilers, it may also reflect the impact of copyright restrictions, the publishers' sense of what sells, the price of binding, or the fluctuating ...
... anthologies and other affordable volumes for classroom and home use did the same. To be sure, deluxe editions had their place, but so did pamphlets and magazines. Class, race, and gender thus figure in my account not so much as ...
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 |