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  • Formaat: Hardback, 312 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x152 mm, kaal: 567 g, 4 halftones. 1 table.
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2012
  • Kirjastus: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691119368
  • ISBN-13: 9780691119366
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 312 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x152 mm, kaal: 567 g, 4 halftones. 1 table.
  • Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2012
  • Kirjastus: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691119368
  • ISBN-13: 9780691119366
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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.



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.



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Winner of the 2013 NAVSA Best Book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association "It's tempting to sentimentalize an era in which poetry--memorized, recited poetry--held so prominent a place in the culture. But its once-substantial role turns out to be a mixed and complicated tale, as thoroughly chronicled [ by] Catherine Robson."--Brad Leithauser, NewYorker.com "Catherine Robson's extraordinary book, a feat of imagining as well as of scholarship, explores the memorization and reciting of poems in classrooms across England and America through substantial portions of the last two centuries."--William H. Pritchard, Weekly Standard "I hope that books like Catherine Robson's brilliant Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem will mark a turning point in the history of our discipline. Written with a lightness of touch but a depth of commitment ... lively, fresh and insightful ... thoughtful and meticulous."--Chris Jones, Times Higher Education "Robson develops her arguments with a delicious range of references."--Julie Blake, English in Education "Robson does far more than give us the institutional history of verse memorization, though she does this fascinatingly well. She interrogates what performed memorization means for the study of poetry, reception, and canonization."--James Najarian, European Romantic Review "Heart Beats invites further research, and should have a significant impact on Victorian studies for some time to come."--Kirstie Blair, Tennyson Research Bulletin "[ A]bsorbing, amazingly-detailed, and at times startling."--Mike Chasar, Poetry

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Winner of North American Victorian Studies Association Best Book of the Year 2012.
List of Figures
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(32)
Part I The Memorized Poem in British and American Public Education
33(58)
Part II Case Studies
91(128)
Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca"
91(32)
Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
123(68)
Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"
191(28)
Afterword 219(16)
Appendixes 235(8)
Notes 243(30)
Works Cited 273(16)
Index 289
Catherine Robson is is professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (Princeton).