The Ode Less Travelled
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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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I'm a huge Stephen Fry fan and this book did not disappoint. You might think the subject matter - poetry and especially the forms and types of verses and rhymes used to compose it - to be dry and dull but nothing could be further from the truth. Stephen Fry uses his usual wit to make even this dreaded lesson from our bygone school days entertaining and fun. Try your hand at the many exercises, they might not turn you into the next Milton of W.H. Auden but you'll have fun and will gain a new insight in the world of poetry.
Description
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.
Book Information
Posts
I'm a huge Stephen Fry fan and this book did not disappoint. You might think the subject matter - poetry and especially the forms and types of verses and rhymes used to compose it - to be dry and dull but nothing could be further from the truth. Stephen Fry uses his usual wit to make even this dreaded lesson from our bygone school days entertaining and fun. Try your hand at the many exercises, they might not turn you into the next Milton of W.H. Auden but you'll have fun and will gain a new insight in the world of poetry.