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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... religious ceremonies, at celebrity performances, and around Girl Scout campfires. Furthermore, the uses of verse in those settings gave the genre a cultural presence that publishers' sales figures do not measure: in school, for instance ...
... religious verse, poetry for the home, and other groupings organized by thematic rather than aesthetic qualities. Often their reading was eclectic, mingling texts that varied in style, structure, craft, provenance and, by contemporary ...
... religious resonances at several of the sites I investigate, “God's in His Heaven” deals with the genre's overtly religious uses: its presence in devotional exercises, anthologies, and denominational periodicals; in the contemplative and ...
... religious worship: “beautiful devotion” that, as the darkness deepens, shades into “mystical experience.” The deference the schoolroom poets commanded—while reinforced, as the label suggests, in the hierarchical setting of the classroom ...
... religion, Publishers' Weekly calculated that the number of poetry and drama titles (unfortunately for the historian, the trade journal amalgamated those categories) issued by all American book publishers in 1911 was more than two and a ...
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 |