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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... Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism in the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000). It is impossible to list all of the friends—singing companions, “Women's Weekenders,” purveyors of laughter and wisdom—who ...
... modern America the list would also include literary agents, editors, librarians, book clubs, reviewers, and mass-market retailers. While a poetry anthology like Through Magic Casements mirrors the se- lection principles of its compilers ...
... modern values. Edgar Guest embodied similar contradictions. A poet of the domestic and the sentimental, he was, in his own way, also a master of the modern. Because Millay and Guest each combined elements of prescriptions for ...
... modern and the traditional. Even after World War I, they preserved a large space for legacies of the nineteenth century, intertwining what Raymond Williams called the “residual culture” of the past with the “dominant order” of the ...
... modern tendency to devalue poets popular in their time “arises in part from our persistent neglect of the reader as a force in literature.” As a guide to the reading public's regard for the schoolroom group in the postbellum period, no ...
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 |