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Heart Beats : Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem by Robson, Catherine is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>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. <i>Heart Beats</i> 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 sid
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- Author
- Robson, Catherine
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400845156
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Education
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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