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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... dedicate this book to Tai, David, and Michael with nothing more poetic than a simple declaration of love, but, in practice, the meaning of the words runs deep. Contents Introduction 1 Part I THE POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE Acknowledgments ̃ ...
... word its forms and meanings.2 Because of my commitment, as a cultural historian, to exploring human aspirations, anxieties ... words, insights into how people “made sense of life.” Equally exhilarating was the prospect of excavating the ...
... word that, for the sake of variety, I use interchangeably with “poetry”) for largely practical reasons—namely, that the ... words on the page. Thus it offered the chance to see at close range the interplay between values, ideologies, and ...
... word “poetry” as if it denoted a single type of literature (and while I sustain that usage in representing their ... words, to es- say collections that “deliberately avoid consecutiveness and coherence.” As Sacvan Bercovitch declared ...
... words, had become a scholarly “truism” by the mid-1990s: “readers remake the text.” They arrive at provisional meanings through the ways they understand and use print, “appropriating” it for ends that its creators may not have ...
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 |