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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... educators, publishers, and readers alike frequently used the word “poetry” as if it denoted a single type of literature (and while I sustain that usage in representing their ideas), within that rubric there was always wide variety ...
... educators put forth for its study; the several competing modes of reading, as well as the social needs those modes reflected and served; the history of the verse speaking choir; and, finally, the testimony of the students themselves ...
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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 |