Heart beats: everyday life and the memorized poem

✍ Scribed by Robson, Catherine

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2012;2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 358 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1400845157

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION; 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.;This volume investigates recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. It scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics.