- Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, c2007.
- Year Published: 2007
- Description: ix, 470 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Language: English
- Format: Book
ISBN/Standard Number
- 9780674024366 (hbk.)
- 0674024362 (hbk.)
Subjects
- Oral interpretation of poetry.
- American literature -- Appreciation.
- Poetry -- Public opinion.
- Public opinion.
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Songs of ourselves : the uses of poetry in America
by Rubin, Joan Shelley, 1947-
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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.
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