Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America

by Joan Rubin

Book Overview

Listen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek Producer: Heron & Crane

In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings.

Reciting a poem together with others joined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035127
• ISBN13: 9780674035126
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.7"