Michael C. Cohen
The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael C. Cohen · 2015
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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.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN
- 9780812247084
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