{"product_id":"rules-for-the-dance-a-handbook-for-writing-and-reading-metrical-verse","title":"Rules For The Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse","description":"Pulitzer-prize winning poet and National Book Award winner, Mary Oliver, provides a graceful manual on the mechanics of poetical composition.\n\"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.”\nWith an anthology of fifty poems representing the best metrical poetry in English, from the Elizabethan Age to Elizabeth Bishop.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 039585086X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.039585086X.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Oliver, Mary\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505750450234,"sku":"DBV.039585086X.A","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/039585086X-0.jpg?v=1783205604","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/rules-for-the-dance-a-handbook-for-writing-and-reading-metrical-verse","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}