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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