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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

Oliver, Mary

Paperback

Writing InstructionPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 039585086X
ISBN13: 9780395850862
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Jul 27 1998
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.24
Language: English

Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance, wrote Alexander Pope. The dance, in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work--and enables readers, as only she can, to enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure.

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