| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION; PART II: CASE STUDIES; Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca"; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"; Afterword; Appendixes; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource |
| Subject |
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.
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Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore
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| SUBJECT |
Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore
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Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard
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Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca
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Elegy written in a country churchyard (Gray, Thomas) fast |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Social aspects.
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Recitation (Education)
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Poetry -- Social aspects
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Poetry -- Study and teaching
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Recitation (Education)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012005139 |
| ISBN |
9781400845156 |
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1400845157 |
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0691119368 |
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9780691119366 |
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