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Download or read book The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth Century America written by Michael C. Cohen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the enjoyment of linguistic complexity, many others turned to poems for spiritual and psychic wellbeing, adapted popular musical settings of poems to spread scandal and satire, or used poems as a medium for asserting personal and family memories as well as local and national affiliations. Poetry was not only read but memorized and quoted, rewritten and parodied, collected, anthologized, edited, and exchanged. Michael C. Cohen here explores the multiplicity of imaginative relationships forged between poems and those who made use of them from the post-Revolutionary era to the turn of the twentieth century. Organized along a careful genealogy of ballads in the Atlantic world, The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America demonstrates how the circulation of texts in songs, broadsides, letters, and newsprint as well as in books, anthologies, and critical essays enabled poetry to perform its many different tasks. Considering the media and modes of reading through which people encountered and made sense of poems, Cohen traces the lines of critical interpretations and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poetic genres in American literary culture. Examining well-known works by John Greenleaf Whittier and Walt Whitman as well as popular ballads, minstrel songs, and spirituals, Cohen shows how discourses on poetry served as sites for debates over history, literary culture, citizenship, and racial identity.

Download or read book Recitations for Young Speakers Or Popular Program written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Recitations for Young Speakers Or Popular Program written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recitations for Young Speakers, or Popular Program: Containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings From the Best Authors, for Public Schools, Parlor Entertainments, Social Gatherings, Sunday Schools, Etc This demand is fully supplied by this work, which is a rich casket of gems in Prose and Poetry, all strikingly adapted to instruct and entertain. They are suited to every conceivable occasion where a reading is in order, and are the best afforded by the whole range of literature, comprising Eloquence and Sentiment Pathos and Humor; Dramatic and Descriptive Selections; Juvenile Readings, Dialogues, Tableaux, etc, etc. The Illustrated Broom Drill, with which the work begins, furnishes an excellent exercise for young people. It keeps the body erect, requires a great variety of positions, develops all the muscles and teaches the easy, graceful use of the body. In this part of the work is a great variety of Selections which young people find suitable for readings and recitations on every occasion. These and all the other pieces the book contains have been selected with the greatest care. Their moral tone is elevating, and this renders them such selections as no parent or teacher would hesitate to put into the hands of the young. The prevailing character of this part of the work is dramatic, affording an excellent opportunity for the best display of ability in the reader's consummate art. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.