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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... teachers who attained a national audience after Macmillan issued the book in 1927. Although not usually given to literary enthusiasms, my father was delighted with his find, and spent many hours reciting (to me and other captives) lines ...
... teacher who, in the same period, recovered her mental balance after her mother's death by rereading lines affirming nature's goodness—these are among the many examples I adduce to show how poetry functioned to carry, shape, and serve ...
... teachers, “Americanizers,” librarians, ministers, and the like who were involved in dissemination as well as reception. The ideological commitments of these intermediaries simultaneously operated as limits for the readers they sought to ...
... teacher and popularizer David Pryde, portrayed poets as voicing ideas “too imposing and too vivid to be expressed by ordinary language.” Both Porter's and Pryde's comments at once affirmed and justified a view of poetry as inherently ...
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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 |