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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... reflected publishers' priorities rather than readers' resistance. Resistance is also one theme I address through the final set of figures in Chapter 6, “Alien and Intimate”—specifically, how, from the early days of free verse onward ...
... reflected and served; the history of the verse speaking choir; and, finally, the testimony of the students themselves about the presence of poetry in their lives and the significance they attached to schoolroom verse irrespective of ...
... reflected not the poetic genre's exalted standing but, rather, its beleaguered position in late-nineteenth-century America. The legend of Monroe at the Columbian Exposition, which she actively fostered in her own memoirs, was, by her ...
... reflection of the disruptions that industrial capitalism brought to everyday American life. In its materials and in the circumstances of its production, realism faithfully exhibited the pervasive effects of urbanization, immigration ...
... reflected editors' cavalier attitude toward poets' work; in many quarters, the term “magazine poet” became one of derision. Book publishers, Monroe thought, were equally culpable. The manifesto she wrote to publicize the launching of ...
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 |