Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 45
... influenced my thinking over many years; Stanley Engerman, the ideal intelligent reader; and Scott Casper, who wrote an insightful anonymous reader's report and subsequently identified himself to me. I am also indebted to my ...
... decision to explore the uses of poetry, here I want to note the indelible influence of my mother, Pearl W. Rubin. In her passion for literary culture, her modernist sensibility, and her approach to life, she has viii TM Acknowledgments.
... influenced the circumstances of both production and reception. The readers I discuss did not confront an expanded canon so much as multiple canons; these included religious verse, poetry for the home, and other groupings organized by ...
... simultaneously operated as limits for the readers they sought to influence and presented them with multiple avenues to meaning. I should add that neither the five sites which I have selected for close 12 TM Songs of Ourselves.
... influential editor of the Ladies' Home Journal at the turn of the twentieth century. Bok's narrative is a fascinating reassertion of faith in opportunity and the efficacy of individual action at just the point when the growth of urban ...
Contents
19 | |
25 | |
34 | |
53 | |
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 |