Heart beats : everyday life and the memorized poem

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Heart beats : everyday life and the memorized poem

Catherine Robson

Princeton University Press, c2012

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and index

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ISBN 9780691119366

内容説明

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. "Heart Beats" begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century's, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans' "Casabianca", Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna". To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If - ", asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, "Heart Beats" is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.

目次

List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I - THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION 33 PART II - CASE STUDIES 91 Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca" 91 Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 123 Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" 191 Afterword 219 Appendixes 235 Notes 243 Works Cited 273 Index 289
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: pbk ISBN 9780691163376

内容説明

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. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.

目次

List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART I - THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION 33 PART II - CASE STUDIES 91 Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca" 91 Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 123 Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" 191 Afterword 219 Appendixes 235 Notes 243 Works Cited 273 Index 289

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