If you can speak and read English,you can write poetry.The trick is knowing where to start. Stephen Fry,who has long written poems,and indeed has written long poems,for his own private pleasure,invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre,rhyme and verse forms.Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday,an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy,The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so. Brimful of enjoyable exercises,witty insights and simple step-by-step advice,The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts.
Publisher: CornerstoneISBN: 9780099509349Number of pages: 384Weight: 266 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
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Fry's extraordinary book is an idiots'guide to the writing of poetry,a primer,a tutorial with funny turns,an earnest textbook... You can't but marvel at Fry's easy familiarity with the rictameter and the rondeau redoublé and applaud the energy of his evangelistic zealWith his usual wit and occasional obscenity,he takes us through an array of metrical forms and poetic structures,talking to us like a cajoling hearty teacherIntelligent and informative,a worthy enterprise well executedA smart,sane and entertaining return to basicsFunny and instructive
Stephen Fry
Since 1991 and the publication of his debut novel The Liar,actor and comedian Stephen Fry has enjoyed an almost unique position in British culture,balancing his talents as an entertainer whilst being recognised as a novelist with heavyweight credential. His three biographies were all runaway critical successes,and Fry is also recognised across the world as the audiobook voice of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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