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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... edition 228 Solitary poetry lover 244 Ella Lyman Cabot reading to children 252 Wife of Farm Security Administration client reading to her son 264 Isabel Crawford 304 Reverend William L. Stidger 321 Sunday worship at Camp Kehonka 327 The ...
... had asked to buy me a present, by telling her that all I really wanted was a slim paperback edition of Carl Sandburg's Harvest Poems.) Yet, my exposure to the power of Through Magic Casements aside, I chose to write Introduction ̃ 3.
... edition of the Heath 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 ...
... editions had their place, but so did pamphlets and magazines. Class, race, and gender thus figure in my account not so much as explanations of reading differences but as categories to be reckoned with in charting the many factors that ...
... editions of the American Citizens Handbook. The home is the principal focus of “Grow Old Along with Me.” I note the material forms in which poems for home use circulated and the moral imperatives they acquired in connection with the ...
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 |