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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... nineteenth-century New England that nevertheless expressed what I most wanted to say: “Thou'rt gone / The abyss of heaven / Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart / Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, / And shall not soon ...
... nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans also encountered poetic texts at a number of public, or at any rate observable, venues: in school, at civic gatherings, in women's clubs, as parlor entertainment and bedtime routine ...
... nineteenth-century women. The Norton Anthology of American Literature (second edition, 1985) carefully specifies that modernism overlapped with traditionalist impulses. The Columbia History of American Poetry (1993) reclaims women poets ...
... therapeutic and ritualistic overtones to the text that it did not necessarily acquire in the schoolroom. In this study, I show how late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century readers of poetry “took command of Introduction ̃ 7.
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. how late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century readers of poetry “took command of books, . . . gave them meaning, and invested them with their own expectations” by engaging in practices ...
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 |