Heart beats : everyday life and the memorized poem /
Robson, Catherine, 1962-
Heart beats : everyday life and the memorized poem / Catherine Robson. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCTION; PART II: CASE STUDIES; Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca"; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"; Afterword; Appendixes; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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.
9781400845156 (electronic bk.) 1400845157 (electronic bk.) 0691119368 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780691119366 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
ebr10590914
22573/ctthd1fw JSTOR
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore.
Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca.
Elegy written in a country churchyard (Gray, Thomas)
Poetry--Social aspects.
Recitation (Education)
Poetry--Study and teaching.
Récitation (Éducation)
Poésie--Étude et enseignement.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Poetry--Social aspects.
Poetry--Study and teaching.
Recitation (Education)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN1031 / .R626 2012eb
808.1/07
Heart beats : everyday life and the memorized poem / Catherine Robson. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCTION; PART II: CASE STUDIES; Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca"; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"; Afterword; Appendixes; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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.
9781400845156 (electronic bk.) 1400845157 (electronic bk.) 0691119368 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780691119366 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
ebr10590914
22573/ctthd1fw JSTOR
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore.
Wolfe, Charles, 1791-1823. Burial of Sir John Moore.
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771. Elegy written in a country churchyard.
Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835. Casabianca.
Elegy written in a country churchyard (Gray, Thomas)
Poetry--Social aspects.
Recitation (Education)
Poetry--Study and teaching.
Récitation (Éducation)
Poésie--Étude et enseignement.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Poetry--Social aspects.
Poetry--Study and teaching.
Recitation (Education)
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PN1031 / .R626 2012eb
808.1/07