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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... simultaneously operated as limits for the readers they sought to influence and presented them with multiple avenues to meaning. I should add that neither the five sites which I have selected for close 12 TM Songs of Ourselves.
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. neither the five sites which I have selected for close inspection nor the sources on which I have relied are the only ones pertinent to my subject; given that I am treading on fairly ...
... five of the fireside poets were still living at the time of the Whittier Day commemoration (Bryant died the next year), all had passed from poetry's rank-and-file to become—as the commemoration testified— icons of New England literary ...
... five and ten cent 'libraries.'” Moreover, they omitted some self-published works emanating from printing companies. A comparison of PW's 1905 totals with a list for that year gleaned from the American Book Publishing Record (organized ...
... five hundred copies, offering the promise of the audience for which Robinson was “desperately eager”; and a deluxe edition of fifty more, printed on and bound in vellum.18 The same point can be made about verse that authors carted off ...
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 |