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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... popular”) have worked in practice.3 I decided to contribute to such a history by turning to the genre my father had enjoyed: poetry. That focus, I have since learned by giving assorted public presentations, tends to elicit either high ...
... popular figures, Spiller and his colleagues followed a mainly linear progression from romanticism to realism (with its regional variants) to the “new poetry” and its successors. Since the 1970s, the canon debates and the impact of ...
... popular” literature) and “social differences.” That is, as both Chartier and Hall have convincingly maintained, demarcations of class, gender, or race do not automatically enable the historian to infer what and how people in those ...
... popular 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 ...
... popular, but also between the secular and the sacred, the liberatory and the conservative, the modern and the traditional. Even after World War I, they preserved a large space for legacies of the nineteenth century, intertwining what ...
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 |