Songs of Ourselves : the Uses of Poetry in America.

Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced American readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry, and between modern and traditional, Rubin reveals a fuller, more...

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Main Author: Rubin, Joan Shelley (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Belknap Press [Imprint], Harvard University Press. March 2010 ;
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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I THE POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE -- 1 Seer and Sage -- 2 Amateur and Professional -- 3 Absence and Presence -- 4 Sophisticate and Innocent -- 5 Celebrity and Cipher -- 6 Alien and Intimate -- Part II POETRY IN PLACE AND PRACTICE -- 7 Listen, My Children: Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools -- 8 I Am an American: Poetry and Civic Ideals -- 9 Grow Old Along with Me: Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends -- 10 God's in His Heaven: Religious Uses of Verse -- 11 Lovely as a Tree: Reading and Seeing Out-of-Doors -- Coda "Favorite" Poems and Contemporary Readers -- Notes -- Index. 
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