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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... God's in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse 287 11 Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing Out-of-Doors 336 Coda “Favorite” Poems and Contemporary Readers 381 Illustrations Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 30 A 1920s “Evangeline” 51 Edna. Notes ...
... God's in His Heaven” deals with the genre's overtly religious uses: its presence in devotional exercises, anthologies, and denominational periodicals; in the contemplative and social lives of missionaries and ministers; and in ...
... gods” whose perceptual gifts enabled them to transcend the obstacles impeding the ordinary person's consciousness of beauty. The task of the Emersonian poet was not only to apprehend messages hidden from plain view but also to ...
... gods,” Whitman decided to become the American bard for which the lecture advertised. (Whitman in turn advertised Leaves of Grass by quoting without permission the sentence from Emerson's letter to him that declared: “I greet you at the ...
... gods, on the other hand they experience access—at only one remove—to literary greatness. The autograph hunters who plagued Whittier overcame even that distance by going directly to the source. An extended illustration of the same point ...
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 |