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

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- **What is this?** Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
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## Description

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.

Review: A complete joy from start to finish - A complete joy from start to finish. Obviously, like tonal music and figurative painting, metrical poetry is an art form that is seen as hopelessly dated by most current practitioners. But if you want to understand what Julia Donaldson is doing (as well as every major poet before 1950), here is a great place to start.
Review: Five Stars - Love Mary Oliver, Brilliant book. Frances.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | 243,052 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 66 in Italian Poetry (Books) 542 in Criticism on Poetry & Poets 22,588 in Reference (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 332 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A complete joy from start to finish
*by P***R on 9 April 2016*

A complete joy from start to finish. Obviously, like tonal music and figurative painting, metrical poetry is an art form that is seen as hopelessly dated by most current practitioners. But if you want to understand what Julia Donaldson is doing (as well as every major poet before 1950), here is a great place to start.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by A***R on 16 July 2018*

Love Mary Oliver, Brilliant book. Frances.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by L***Y on 3 February 2016*

excellent does what its says on the cover

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