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

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."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Ecco Press
  • Publish Date: Jul 27th, 1998
  • Pages: 208
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.24in - 5.50in - 0.51in - 0.45lb
  • EAN: 9780395850862
  • Recommended age: 14-UP
  • Categories: • Writing - Poetry• Poetry• European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

About the Author

Oliver, Mary: -

Mary Oliver (1935-2019), one of the most popular and widely honored poets in the U.S., was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, she received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive in 1984. Oliver also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. She lived most of her life in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Praise for this book

"What good company Mary Oliver is!" The Los Angeles Times --