Songs of ourselves : the uses of poetry in America /
"In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they encountered in those setting...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seer and sage
- Amateur and professional
- Absence and presence
- Sophisticate and innocent
- Celebrity and cipher
- Alien and intimate
- Listen, my children: modes of poetry reading in American schools
- I am an American: poetry and civic ideals
- Grow old along with me: poetry and emotions among family and friends
- God's in his heaven: religious uses of verse
- Lovely as a tree: reading and seeing out-of-doors
- Coda "favorite" poems and contemporary readers.