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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... my decision to explore the uses of poetry, here I want to note the indelible influence of my mother, Pearl W. Rubin. In her passion for literary culture, her modernist sensibility, and her approach to life, she has viii TM Acknowledgments.
... literary enthusiasms, my father was delighted with his find, and spent many hours reciting (to me and other captives) lines from such remembered favorites as Thomas Babington Macaulay's “Horatius” and James Russell Lowell's “The Vision ...
... literary form, especially one that has never commanded more than a small fraction of the book market. I have more affinities with the first group than the second: like many American teenage girls, I was a dreamy-eyed adolescent poet ...
... literary history that has engaged the editors of surveys like the Cambridge History of American Literature (2003). Older volumes that laid out American poetry's development—a classic example is Robert Spiller's Literary History of the ...
... literary production. Even in their postmodern manifestations, they inevitably constitute exercises in canon formation by featuring selected works. In this book, by contrast, I emphasize the cultural expectations, economic demands, and ...
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 |