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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... Civic Ideals 165 9 Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends 242 10 God's in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse 287 11 Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing Out-of-Doors 336 Coda “Favorite” Poems and Contemporary ...
... civic gatherings, in women's clubs, as parlor entertainment and bedtime routine, within religious ceremonies, at celebrity performances, and around Girl Scout campfires. Furthermore, the uses of verse in those settings gave the genre a ...
... civic leader. Next, I juxtapose “Amateur and Professional” to suggest the ways in which the literary marketplace and the nineteenth- century trend toward professionalism could work both to increase readers' reverence for poets and to ...
... civic pride and unity (while allaying cultural anxieties) at commemorative events; in the hands of clubwomen and settlement house workers, it became a means to assist urban immigrants. The social ideals and hopes with which readers ...
... civic-minded intellectual. As Buell has phrased it, in place of the “Romantic tendency toward privatism,” oratorical culture enhanced the status of the poet as “a sayer, an announcer, a liberator, a lawgiver.”8 That status held even ...
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 |