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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... Poet in American Culture,” is designed to unsettle linear narratives of the genre's development in the United States ... poet's authority which—as both constraint and opportunity—in- fluenced what texts got published, how intermediaries ...
... poet of the domestic and the sentimental, he was, in his own way, also a master of the modern. Because Millay and Guest ... poet's roles. In the fifth chapter, “Celebrity and Cipher,” I extend the narrative of poetry's cultural status by ...
... poet's extraordinary vision enabled him to discern spiritual laws and universal truth. In addition, Emerson's understanding of the poet as seer drew on the specific American context in which it developed, relying, for one thing, on the ...
... Poet worthy of that name,” Whitman wrote in lines from 1868 that later became part of “Passage to India”; “The true Son ... poet's “genius impels him to employ a dialect of his own which no man can imitate.” The American edition of The ...
... poet as seer and sage alike, one cultural effect of the Emersonian tradition was to affiliate poetry with the domain of the ... poet's worldly responsibilities. Again, those ideals were not diametrically opposed to each other, because ...
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 |