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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse Paperback - 1998
by Mary Oliver
With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winner Mary Oliver shows 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 that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas".
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"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," wrote Alexander Pope. "The dance," in the case of Oliver's 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, Oliver shows 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 that intensify both the poem's narrative and its ideas."
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- Title Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
- Author Mary Oliver
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-07-27
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780395850862 / 039585086X
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.5 x 0.51 in (20.93 x 13.97 x 1.30 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
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- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Poetry - Authorship, English language - Versification
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98002625
- Dewey Decimal Code 821.009
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- Booklist, 06/15/1998, Page 1708
- Library Journal, 08/01/1998, Page 104
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