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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... Celebrity and Cipher 75 6 Alien and Intimate 92 Part II POETRY IN PLACE AND PRACTICE 7 Listen, My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools 107 8 I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals 165 9 Grow Old Along with Me Poetry ...
... celebrity performances, and around Girl Scout campfires. Furthermore, the uses of verse in those settings gave the genre a cultural presence that publishers' sales figures do not measure: in school, for instance, everyone read poems ...
... Celebrity and Cipher,” I extend the narrative of poetry's cultural status by following its fortunes within the book trade into the 1940s. The underlying question here is the extent to which the book industry's conviction that “poetry ...
... celebrity of cowboy poets at the turn of the twentieth century and the verse-reading practices of Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls. The book ends with a forward glance at the poetry boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first ...
... celebrity and brilliance surmounted the temptation to dismiss the speaker as incomprehensible. “We do not go to hear what Emerson says,” James Russell Lowell famously remarked, “so much as to hear Emerson.” Nevertheless, for some ...
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 |