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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... tradition that Spiller oversaw has given way, in David Perkins's words, to es- say collections that “deliberately avoid consecutiveness and coherence.” As Sacvan Bercovitch declared in his introduction to the newest Cambridge History ...
... traditions, remain organized around authors and movements.6 Such surveys and anthologies generally register the results of literary production. Even in their postmodern manifestations, they inevitably constitute exercises in canon ...
... traditional. Even after World War I, they preserved a large space for legacies of the nineteenth century, intertwining what Raymond Williams called the “residual culture” of the past with the “dominant order” of the interwar period.12 A ...
... tradition promoted was not susceptible to that process because, from that romantic perspective, it was an inherently sacred form.5 Yet anyone who is familiar with Emerson, and who has thus learned to expect inconsistencies and ...
... tradition was to affiliate poetry with the domain of the sacred and esoteric, while another of its consequences— whether by example or, for those such as Loring, by counterexample—was to reiterate the poet's worldly responsibilities ...
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 |