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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... wrote an insightful anonymous reader's report and subsequently identified himself to me. I am also indebted to my collaborators on A History of the Book in America, of which David Hall is general editor, and to its sponsor, the American ...
... wrote about children, “better than all the ballads / That were ever sung or said.” I 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 ...
... the following pages confirm the tantalizing speculation with which Gray and Munroe closed their case. In America, they wrote, “there must be many Mr. M's.”13 PART I THE POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE n chapter one 16 TM Songs of Ourselves.
... wrote in lines from 1868 that later became part of “Passage to India”; “The true Son of God shall come, singing his songs.”4 Versions of Emerson's and Whitman's poet as lone visionary routinely appeared in the prescriptive literature ...
... wrote poetry than regarded “poet” as their occupation. Lawrence Buell's statistical study of 276 New England authors between 1770 and the Civil War suggests that women were more inclined than men to define themselves “primarily” as ...
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 |