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A handbook for writing and reading metrical verse
By Mary Oliver
"Rules for the dance" was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1998 - Boston, USA, it has 194 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Rules for the dance” Metadata:
- Title: Rules for the dance
- Author: Mary Oliver
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 194
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Publish Date: 1998
- Publish Location: Boston, USA
“Rules for the dance” Subjects and Themes:
- 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
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
- Pagination: x, 194 p.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24548189M - OL15597557W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 38239150
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 98002625
- ISBN-13: 9780395850862
- ISBN-10: 039585086X
- All ISBNs: 039585086X - 9780395850862
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"Rules for the dance" Table Of Contents:
- 1- The rules
- 2- Breath
- 3- Patterns
- 4- More about patterns
- 5- Design : line length
- 6- Release of energy along the line
- 7- Design : rhyme
- 8- Design : traditional forms
- 9- Words on a string
- 10- Mutes and other sounds
- 11- The use of meter in non-metric verse
- 12- Ohs and the ahs
- 13- Image-making
- 14- The dancers one by one
- 15- Style
- 16- Scansion, and the actual work
- 17- Scansion : reading the metrical poem
- 18- Scansion : writing the metrical poem
- 19- Yourself dancing : the actual work
- 20- A universal music
- 21- Then and now 103
- 22- Envoi
- 23- An anthology of metrical poems
"Rules for the dance" Description:
The Open Library:
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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