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

Oliver, Mary

ISBN 10: 039585086X / ISBN 13: 9780395850862

Verlag: Mariner Books, 1998

1st edition. 208 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 039585086X

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."

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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Titel: Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing ...
Verlag: Mariner Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New