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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... Emotions among Family and Friends 242 10 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 ...
... emotional life in America. Mine is a story of poetry as lived experience. The young Iowa woman who, in 1886, invested a volume of Wordsworth with the power to signify that the man she pined for cared about her; the turn-of-the-century ...
... emotional or psychological weight that poetry bore within the context of the family and other intimate relationships. Both working-class and middle-class readers called up the figure of the poet as innocent in trying to meet their needs ...
... emotional work to verse, drawing on the capacity of the poet to serve as imagined companion and friend. This chapter ends by examining the correspondence between Carl Sandburg and his audience to reveal the emotional ties and putative ...
... emotional, and human history of American culture. In carrying out that charge, the following pages confirm the tantalizing speculation with which Gray and Munroe closed their case. In America, they wrote, “there must be many Mr. M's.”13 ...
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 |