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 while providing some basic information about production and dissemination. One of its central concerns is the status of ...
... poets of the early twentieth century: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edgar A. Guest. Millay represents the poet as agent of a new kind of sociability—the urbane, bohemian style of social exchange endemic to New York's Greenwich Village ...
... 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 masculinity and femininity, this chapter likewise permits me to point ...
... poet to serve as imagined companion and friend. This chapter ends by examining the correspondence between Carl Sandburg and his audience to reveal the emotional ties and putative intimacy that real poets and readers could mutually ...
... poet or symbolizing the genre's cultural standing. One episode that looms especially large occurred in 1855, the year Walt Whitman brought out the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Having received a copy of the book from its author ...
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 |