 | The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America Subjects: American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- His; The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America illuminates the connections between poems and critical ideas about poetic genres, and tracks the emergence and disappearance of poems and poets in American culture by examining how people encountered and made sense of poetry. Michael C. Cohen teaches English at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
