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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... reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC, and the Princeton University Library. I have reprinted material from the Archives of Charles Scribner's Sons, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections ...
... reprinted in Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas, eds., Reading Acts: U.S. Readers' Interactions with Literature, 1800– 1950 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002). Portions of Chapters 7 and 9 appeared in “Modernism in Practice ...
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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 |