Heart Beats

Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem

Catherine Robson

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

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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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His Family, Montgomery C. Meigs, Sentimentality, Oral history, Newspaper, Literacy, Cemetery, New Criticism, Ted Hughes, Classroom, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Mass grave, Narrative, Pamphlet, Felicia Hemans, Grammar school, Curriculum, G. (novel), Poet laureate, Stanza, Memoir, Literature, Secondary education, T. S. Eliot, Close reading, Publication, Case study, Charles Wolfe, Poet, Writer, Correspondent, Allusion, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Writing, Sunday school, English literature, National Endowment for the Humanities, Of Education, Burial, Memorization, Robert Southey, In Death, Lord Byron, The Other Hand, American poetry, Nursery rhyme, Illustration, Afterword, Mrs., Autodidacticism, Quatrain, Rudyard Kipling, To Heart, Grammar, The Uses of Literacy, Recitation, Raymond Williams, Genre, Autobiography, National Poetry Day, Geoffrey Willans, I Wish (manhwa), Diction, Churchyard, New Historicism, Literary criticism, Poetry, En route (novel), Coffin, Rhyme