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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... Longfellow 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 Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. Illustrations. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 30 A 1920s “Evangeline” 51 Edna St. Vincent Millay 62 Edgar A. Guest 71 A Pamphlet Poets volume 85 School recitation in 1874 109 School recitation ...
... Longfellow as of Eliot. Furthermore, while poets, critics, educators, publishers, and readers alike frequently used the word “poetry” as if it denoted a single type of literature (and while I sustain that usage in representing their ...
... Longfellow and Tennyson and the complaints of younger poets about the difficulties of publishing verse in the United States must be qualified by distinctions among kinds of poetry, by an examination of the actual output of various types ...
... Longfellow. “There has been almost no change,” Gray and Munroe observed, “in his reading interests throughout his life.” His choice of Longfellow and Burns, they speculated, was “perhaps a link with his early home and his mother.” In ...
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 |