LEADER 03947nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910785622503321 005 20230126205712.0 010 $a1-283-54995-6 010 $a9786613862402 010 $a1-4008-4515-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400845156 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234149 035 $a(EBL)997596 035 $a(OCoLC)845246026 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701369 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11470865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701369 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10675672 035 $a(PQKB)10191561 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC997596 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000938125 035 $a(OCoLC)811400570 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37161 035 $a(DE-B1597)447836 035 $a(OCoLC)979749952 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400845156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL997596 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10590914 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL386240 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234149 100 $a20120213d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHeart beats$b[electronic resource] $eeveryday life and the memorized poem /$fCatherine Robson 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (313 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-691-16337-5 311 0 $a0-691-11936-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. The Memorized Poem in British and American Public Education --$tPart II. Case Studies --$tFelicia Hemans, "Casabianca" --$tThomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" --$tCharles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" --$tAfterword --$tAppendix 1 --$tAppendix 2 --$tAppendix 3 --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aMany 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. 606 $aPoetry$xSocial aspects 606 $aRecitation (Education) 606 $aPoetry$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aPoetry$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aRecitation (Education) 615 0$aPoetry$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a808.1/07 700 $aRobson$b Catherine$f1962-$01503224 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785622503321 996 $aHeart beats$93731460 997 $aUNINA