Songs of Ourselves The Uses of Poetry in America

Name: Songs of Ourselves The Uses of Poetry in America
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ISBN: 9780674035126

ISBN-10: 0674035127

ISBN-13: 9780674035126

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joan Shelley Rubin

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.408

Joan Shelley Rubin is professor of history at the University of Rochester. She is author of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America.



Introduction



The Poet in American Culture



Seer and Sage



Amateur and Professional



Absence and Presence



Sophisticate and Innocent



Celebrity and Cipher



Alien and Intimate



Poetry in Place and Practice



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


Notes


Index