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Author Rubin, Joan Shelley, 1947-

Title Songs of ourselves : the uses of poetry in America / Joan Shelley Rubin
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Belknap Press, 2007

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Description ix, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: (pages [407]-450) and index
Subject Oral interpretation of poetry -- United States.
American literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
Poetry -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Poetry -- History and criticism -- United States.
LC no. 2007278126
ISBN 9780674024366 (hbk.)
0674024362 (hbk.)