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Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini
Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini
LeeAnn Bartolini
Most of the psychological work on poetry has investigated the poet (Mason, Mort, Woo, 2015; Jamison, 1989) or the expressive act of writing poetry (Fink & Drake, 2016, Coulehan & Clary, 2005). The National Poetry Foundation commissioned a study in 2006 that examined the general habits of the American public in terms of reading and sharing poetry. This survey found:
- 14% of American population reads poetry.
- Readers in general and poetry readers in particular tend to be women with higher level of education.
- Poetry readers are not loners – high amounts of leisure activity and high sociability.
- Poetry readers tend …