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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... Immigrant children in their classroom, 1909 195 Recitation at an Americanization program, 1940 204 Mary Antin 210 Poetry in an Armed Services edition 228 Solitary poetry lover 244 Ella Lyman Cabot reading to children 252 Wife of Farm ...
... immigrant who linked a classroom recitation with attaining acceptance in his new country; the teacher who, in the same period, recovered her mental balance after her mother's death by rereading lines affirming nature's goodness—these ...
... immigrants, mothers, worshippers, and campers. Those groups, however, contended with the results of other readers' interpretive acts: namely, the re- sponses of teachers, “Americanizers,” librarians, ministers, and the like who were ...
... immigrants. The social ideals and hopes with which readers freighted verse reading are especially visible in the wider “Americanization” and “intercultural education” efforts of the interwar period. This chapter concludes with an ...
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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 |