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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem

Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem

Robson, Catherine

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0691163375
ISBN13: 9780691163376
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 22 2015
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

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.


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