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The Ode Less Travelled

A guide to writing poetry

Stephen Fry

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English
Arrow
01 November 2007
Stephen Fry's The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry.

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.

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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   260g
ISBN:   9780099509349
ISBN 10:   0099509342
Pages:   384
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

As well as being the bestselling author of four novels, The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar, and the first volume of his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, Fry has played Peter in Peter's Friends, Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarded show-business secret, this) Laurie in the television series Fry & Laurie.

Reviews for The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry

&#8220;Fry&#8217;s extraordinary book is an idiot&#8217;s guide to the writing of poetry, a primer, a tutorial with funny turns, an earnest textbook&#8230;&#8221;<br>&#8211; Independent on Sunday <br>&#8220;A smart, sane and entertaining return to basics.&#8221; <br>&#8211; Daily Telegraph


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