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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... responses of readers. Darnton's famous construct of a “communications circuit” singled out such intermediaries as printers, booksellers, paper suppliers, shippers, and censors; for modern America the list would also include literary ...
... response to Twain's now-notorious speech. Twain spun a tale of three “lit- erry men”—Emerson, Longfellow, and Holmes—bumbling into a miner's log cabin near the Sierras. Drunk, uncouth, and cantankerous, the three spout “queer talk ...
... response conveys awe that they are in the presence of someone who has rubbed shoulders with the gods, on the other hand they experience access—at only one remove—to literary greatness. The autograph hunters who plagued Whittier overcame ...
... response, what school or municipal library could function without the complete works of Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier? The African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar was particularly instructive in this regard. “It may be the ...
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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 |