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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... writers or publishing firms, but instead the production, distribution, and reception of the entire range of written communication. With increasing momentum over the last fifteen years, book historians have tackled such subjects as ...
... writing that Americans read and to recover their reading experiences in particular settings is to arrive at a more accurate as well as a more democratic portrayal of American culture than we have previously possessed. I also depart from ...
... writers, all of whom were present among the fifty-eight guests. Three—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell ... writer was Emerson. Also in attendance was William Dean Howells, then editing the magazine, as well as Mark Twain, who ...
... writing as a significant source of income, not simply as a labor of love. Several factors converged to shape the opportunities for poetry at a profit: the example of Byron's and Scott's commercial success in England; the growth of book ...
... of 276 New England authors between 1770 and the Civil War suggests that women were more inclined than men to define themselves “primarily” as writers because they lacked alternative sources of Amateur and Professional ̃ 29.
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 |