Description: 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." With an anthology of fifty poems representing the best metrical poetry in English, from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop.
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EAN: 9780395850862
UPC: 9780395850862
ISBN: 9780395850862
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Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Rules for the Dance : a Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 1998
Subject: Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.5 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Mary Oliver
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
