Bibliograph

Songs of ourselves, the uses of poetry in America, Joan Shelley Rubin

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Label

Songs of ourselves, the uses of poetry in America, Joan Shelley Rubin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-450) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Songs of ourselves

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

81453094

Responsibility statement

Joan Shelley Rubin

Sub title

the uses of poetry in America

Table Of Contents

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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