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

Name: Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
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ISBN: 9780395850862

by Mary Oliver

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For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "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."

Publisher:: Ecco Press
ISBN:: 9780395850862
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 208
Authors:: Mary Oliver
Published Date:: 1998-07-27
Language:: English

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About Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. American Primitive (Little, Brown, 1983) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984, and New and Selected Poems (Beacon Press, 1992) won the National Book Award. Her later books include Why I Wake Early (Beacon Press, 2004) and the essay collection Upstream (Penguin Press, 2016). She studied briefly at Ohio State University and Vassar College. For decades she lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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