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Author Sorby, Angela.

Title Schoolroom poets : childhood, performance, and the place of American poetry, 1865-1917 / Angela Sorby.

Imprint Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press, c2005.
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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  811.309 So68s 2005    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description xlv, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Becoming modern
Becoming modern.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-219) and index.
Contents Learning by heart -- Reading America: Longfellow in the schools -- Learning to be white: John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-bound -- A visit from St. Nicholas: pedagogy, power, and print culture -- Performing class: James Whitcomb Riley onstage -- "Seein' things at night": Eugene Field and the infantilization of American culture -- Emily Dickinson and the form of childhood.
Subject Children's poetry, American -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Children -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Poetry -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Poetry -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Oral interpretation of poetry -- History -- 19th century.
Oral interpretation of poetry -- History -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Children -- United States -- Intellectual life.
ISBN 1584654570 (alk. paper)
9781584654575 (alk. paper)
1584654589 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781584654582 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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