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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The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. For Tai, David, and Michael, with love Acknowledgments n Readers remake texts, but readers who share the.
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. Acknowledgments. n. Readers remake texts, but readers who share the professional commitments of the author also help to make texts in the first place. Foremost in that category are three ...
... texts were inseparable from the associations, longings, and purposes they acquired in the hands of readers. That dawning realization coincided with my attraction, as a scholar, to the burgeoning field of the history of the book. The ...
... texts at a number of public, or at any rate observable, venues: in school, at civic gatherings, in women's clubs, as parlor entertainment and bedtime routine, within religious ceremonies, at celebrity performances, and around Girl Scout ...
... texts coexisting with “light” verse, political poems with children's rhymes, lengthy epics with four-line stanzas, English romantic effusions along with American ones. A history of poetry reading thus allowed—indeed, enjoined—me to ...
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 |