Songs of ourselves : the uses of poetry in America
"In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they encountered in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry shaped readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words."--Publisher description, from dust jacket
eBook, English, ©2007
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2007
Poetry
1 online resource (ix, 470 pages) : illustrations
9780674042964, 9780674035126, 0674042964, 0674035127
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Seer and sage
Amateur and professional
Absence and presence
Sophisticate and innocent
Celebrity and cipher
Alien and intimate
Listen, my children: modes of poetry reading in American schools
I am an American: poetry and civic ideals
Grow old along with me: poetry and emotions among family and friends
God's in his heaven: religious uses of verse
Lovely as a tree: reading and seeing out-of-doors
Coda "favorite" poems and contemporary readers
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
In English
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