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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... identified himself to me. I am also indebted to my collaborators on A History of the Book in America, of which David Hall is general editor, and to its sponsor, the American Antiquarian Society, for giving me an invaluable sense of ...
... identified their favorite poems and who answered my “Author's Query” about schoolroom recitation; they enriched my study immeasurably. I have credited individual respondents in the endnotes, and have quoted from their comments with ...
... identified) “new poets,” shared the conviction, as Williams put it to Monroe, that poetry required a “tincture of disestablishment.” By publishing such work, Monroe saw herself revitalizing the genre after thirty years of decline, a ...
... identified additional factors contributing to the decreased stature of verse: contributors cited the rise of science, the pace of modern life, and the emergence of mass culture as injurious to the poet's craft.8 The reality underlying ...
... identifying marks of American consumer culture in the twentieth century. More important, Duffus's elegy overlooked the persistence throughout the next several decades of the form and themes of Carleton's poetry in an ongoing tradition ...
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 |