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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... poetry long-distance to his sister in California—this was around 1990, before the era of cell phones and “free” minutes—I said to myself, “This schoolroom poetry means something to people.”1 Part of that “something,” it was obvious, lay ...
... poetry”) for largely practical reasons—namely, that the genre's public dimension affords scholars at least some access to the elusive evidence of reading's functions and effects. We may as- sociate poetry with private or intimate ...
... poetry” as if it denoted a single type of literature (and while I sustain that usage in representing their ideas) ... poetry's development—a classic example is Robert Spiller's Literary History of the United States (last reissued in ...
... poetry's development. I begin more or less at the time when the rise of the realistic novel seemed for contemporary critics and literary historians alike to spell the subordination of poetry to fiction, and I end (again, more or less) ...
... poetry in the service of identity formation. It gives attention as well to the affective ties that poetry created not only between poets and readers but also between readers and parents, classmates, and lovers (among others). I ...
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 |