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

Oliver, Mary

ISBN 10: 039585086X / ISBN 13: 9780395850862

Editore: Mariner Books, 1998

1st edition. 208 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo 039585086X

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Mary Oliver is one of the most celebrated and best-selling poets in America. Her books include Red Bird; Our World; Thirst; Blue Iris; New and Selected Poems, Volume One; and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. She has also published five books of prose, including Rules for the Dance and, most recently, Long Life. She lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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Titolo: Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing ...
Casa editrice: Mariner Books
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Brand New