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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... verse (a word that, for the sake of variety, I use interchangeably with “poetry”) for largely practical reasons—namely, that the genre's public dimension affords scholars at least some access to the elusive evidence of reading's ...
... 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 critics ...
... verse onward, modernist obscurity formed a barrier to engagement with poetic texts that certain readers would not cross. But I also look at the activities of mediators who interpreted modernism to a less wary audience, and recover the ...
... verse speaking choir; and, finally, the testimony of the students themselves about the presence of poetry in their lives and the significance they attached to schoolroom verse irrespective of educators' intentions. The following chapter ...
... verse, drawing on the capacity of the poet to serve as imagined companion and friend. This chapter ends by examining the correspondence between Carl Sandburg and his audience to reveal the emotional ties and putative intimacy that real ...
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 |