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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherCornerstone
ISBN-139780099509349
eBay Product ID (ePID)94775453
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Ode Less Travelled: a Guide to Writing Poetry
AuthorStephen Fry
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature
Publication Year2007
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorStephen Fry
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom