Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse from an accomplished journalist who

from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm

it is a landmark work

Due to an antiquated clause in his grandfather's will

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Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse from an accomplished journalist whoFor 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,