Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem

by Catherine Robson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691119368
• ISBN13: 9780691119366
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"