Rules for the dance : a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse / Mary Oliver.
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019.
1998
PE1505 .O37 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
Rules for the dance : a handbook for writing and reading metrical verse / Mary Oliver.
Author
Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019.
ISBN
9780395850862 (paperback)
039585086X (paperback)
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1998]
Language
English
Description
x, 194 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PE1505 .O37 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.009
Summary
"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.""--Jacket.
Note
"A Mariner original."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Mariner book.
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pt. 1.
The rules.
Breath
Patterns
More about patterns
Design : line length
Release of energy along the line
Design : rhyme
Design : traditional forms
Words on a string
Mutes and other sounds
The use of meter in non-metric verse
Ohs and the ahs
Image-making
pt. 2.
The dancers one by one
Style
pt. 3.
Scansion, and the actual work
Scansion : reading the metrical poem
Scansion : writing the metrical poem
Yourself dancing : the actual work
pt. 4.
A universal music
Then and now
Envoi
pt. 5.
An anthology of metrical poems.

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