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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... genre's public dimension affords scholars at least some access to the elusive evidence of reading's functions and ... genre a cultural presence that publishers' sales figures do not measure: in school, for instance, everyone read poems ...
... genre to a high station among the arts, the common school and the standardized curriculum undercut any aura of ... genre's development in the United States while providing some basic information about production and dissemination ...
... genre's uses in World War II and a look at one further alliance between poetry and citizenship, the successive editions of the American Citizens Handbook. The home is the principal focus of “Grow Old Along with Me.” I note the material ...
... 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 congregational worship for both liberal ...
... genre's cultural standing. One episode that looms especially large occurred in 1855, the year Walt Whitman brought out the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Having received a copy of the book from its author, Ralph Waldo Emerson sent ...
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 |