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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... recitation; they enriched my study immeasurably. I have credited individual respondents in the endnotes, and have quoted from their comments with their permission. The late Rabbi Chaim Stern kindly granted me an interview in 1999. Staff ...
... 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, 1800– 1950 ...
... recitation in 1874 109 School recitation in 1941 122 New York City verse speaking choir 141 Recitation at the Lincoln School, 1942 160 Arbor Day recitation in 1908 172 Edwin Markham at the Lincoln Memorial 175 Women's Literary Club in ...
... reciting (to me and other captives) lines from such remembered favorites as Thomas Babington Macaulay's “Horatius” and James Russell Lowell's “The Vision of Sir Launfal.” My father was not given to spending a great deal on telephone ...
... reciting to oneself. In addition, an exploration of poetry reading fit nicely with one of my ongoing concerns: the attempt, on the part of American critics, journalists, and others, to disseminate literature to a wide audience. In The ...
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 |