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An edition of Rules for the dance (1998)

Rules for the dance

A handbook for writing and reading metrical verse

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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."

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
194

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Subjects
Theory, Versification, Authorship, History and criticism, Poetry, English language, English poetry, Poetry, authorship, English poetry - general & miscellaneous - literary criticism, Poetry - reference, Poetic theory, Prosody, Poetry writing

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Table of Contents

Part 1. The rules
1. Breath Page 3
2. Patterns Page 6
3. More about patterns Page 19
4. Design : line length Page 29
5. Release of energy along the line Page 36
6. Design : rhyme Page 40
7. Design : traditional forms Page 50
8. Words on a string Page 57
9. Mutes and other sounds Page 60
10. The use of meter in non-metric verse Page 62
11. Ohs and the ahs Page 65
12. Image-making Page 67
Part 2. The dancers one by one
13. Style Page 79
Part 3. Scansion, and the actual work
14. Scansion : reading the metrical poem Page 87
15. Scansion : writing the metrical poem Page 90
16. Yourself dancing : the actual work Page 93
Part 4. A universal music
17. Then and now 103
Envoi Page 104
Part 5. An anthology of metrical poems Page 109

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A Mariner Original

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Boston, USA
Copyright Date
1998

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.1
Library of Congress
PE1505 .O37 1998, PE1505.O37 1998

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
x, 194 p.
Number of pages
194
Dimensions
8.25 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

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OL24548189M
ISBN 10
039585086X
ISBN 13
9780395850862
LCCN
98002625
OCLC/WorldCat
38239150

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