Songs of Ourselves : : the Uses of Poetry in America
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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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PUBLISHED
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.