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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... York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, is also reprinted by permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. The following students eased many tasks by serving as research as- sistants ...
... York City verse speaking choir 141 Recitation at the Lincoln School, 1942 160 Arbor Day recitation in 1908 172 Edwin Markham at the Lincoln Memorial 175 Women's Literary Club in 1905 181 Immigrant children in their classroom, 1909 195 ...
... York's Greenwich Village, where early modernism thrived. At the same time, I describe Millay's participation in the contrasting phenomenon of the “girl” poet who, in captivating audiences during the 1920s, kept alive a conception of ...
... York Ledger in payment for advance publication in the newspaper of his poem “The Hanging of the Crane.”8 That assiduous professionalism contrasts sharply with the silliness of the Longfellow in Twain's speech. Yet the evolving figure of ...
... York World printed the entire text of the “Ode” without securing her prior consent, forcing Monroe to sue the newspaper for copyright infringement. Second (and perhaps as a consequence of the poem's appearance in the World), visitors to ...
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 |