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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... find, and spent many hours reciting (to me and other captives) lines from such remembered favorites as Thomas Babington Macaulay's “Horatius” and James Russell Lowell's “The Vision of Sir Launfal.” My father was not given to spending a ...
... find in my work the same reverence—“Ah, poetry!”—with which they themselves approach poems. In the second are some historians who are, by temperament and training, inhospitable to the study of a literary form, especially one that has ...
... century American readers as both icons and friends. The descendants of those readers would find the poet less godlike but equally companionable. chapter three Absence and Presence n On an October morning Amateur and Professional ̃33.
... find an American publisher for his collection A Boy's Will; instead, the book initially came out in England in 1913. Similarly, Edwin Arlington Robinson required the intervention of Theodore Roosevelt to win a hearing at Scribner's for ...
... find out,” Howells declared, “would be whether the love of poetry shares the apparent decline of poetry itself.” Only a few readers took him up on his implied invitation to discover the answer to that query, and their letters were 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 |