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

Oliver, Mary

 
9780395850862: Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 039585086X ISBN 13: 9780395850862
Verlag: Mariner Books, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

"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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Oliver (1935–2019), one of the most popular and widely honored poets in the U.S., was the author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose. Over the course of her long and illustrious career, she received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for American Primitive in 1984. Oliver also received the Shelley Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Achievement Award; the Christopher Award and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award for House of Light; the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems; a Lannan Foundation Literary Award; and the New England Booksellers Association Award for Literary Excellence. She lived most of her life in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039585086X
ISBN 13 
9780395850862
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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