On Biblical Poetry considers the characteristics of biblical Hebrew Poetry beyond its currently best known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp demonstrates the many interesting and valuable interpretations that yield from a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, careful attention to prosody, and close reading. What distinguishes the work, beyond its focus on 'underappreciated' components of Hebrew poetry, is its breadth and depth of analysis, its thickness...The reader is exposed not only to new ways of understanding Hebrew poems, but to new ways of orienting and thinking about the elementary dimensions of poetry itself. The detail presented is rich and sometimes provocative.