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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... Literature, 1800– 1950 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002). Portions of Chapters 7 and 9 appeared in “Modernism in Practice: Public Readings of the New Poetry,” in Townsend Ludington, ed., A Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism ...
... literature to a wide audience. In The Making of Middlebrow Culture, I had examined such activities for the interwar years.4 Pushing the narrative back a decade or two led directly to poetry—specifically, to the early modernists (such as ...
... literature (and while I sustain that usage in representing their ideas), within that rubric there was always wide variety: canonized texts coexisting with “light” verse, political poems with children's rhymes, lengthy epics with four ...
... literature (while retaining the historian's faith in chronology). At the same time, I intend to show how the social history of reading differs from projects that, however open to lost traditions, remain organized around authors and ...
... literature to the untold chronicle of 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 ...
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 |