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 Recitation and American Readers,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 160, part 2 (1997), 273–300, reprinted in Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas, eds., Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature ...
... Poetry Reading in American Schools 107 8 I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals 165 9 Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends 242 10 God's in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse 287 11 Lovely as a Tree ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. SONGS of OURSELVES Introduction n My interest in the subject of poetry reading.
... poetry reading initially derived from two sources—one personal, the other scholarly. The personal side concerns my father, a Rochester tax attorney, who, when he was in his seventies, rediscovered his high school poetry anthology in a ...
... reading's functions and effects. We may as- sociate poetry with private or intimate occasions—lovers sharing sonnets ... poetry also survived in memory even when readers no longer confronted words on the page. Thus it offered the chance ...
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 |