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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... Moral Problems in American Life: New Perspectives on Cultural History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), and in “'They Flash Upon That Inward Eye': Poetry Recitation and American Readers,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian ...
... moral imperatives they acquired in connection with the domestic setting. My greater interest, however, is in the emotional or psychological weight that poetry bore within the context of the family and other intimate relationships. Both ...
... morally vapid requirements of the institutionalized Christian ministry.2 Despite its cultural sources, Emerson's figure of the poet as seer was necessarily remote from those he served as interpreter. As Emerson explained, “He is ...
... moral laws embedded in the natural world, poets established a vital, active correspondence, to use an Emersonian term, between themselves and their readers. Furthermore, Emerson's efforts to reveal the divine elements in ordinary ...
... if the measure of health is the production of new, singly-authored volumes of verse exhibiting either the moral authority of Tennyson and Longfellow or the crafted language, formal complexity, and re- Absence and Presence ̃39.
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 |