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The Ode Less Travelled

Unlocking the Poet Within

By Stephen Fry

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| Paperback | 9780099509349

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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.

Stephen Fry has always had a secret passion for poetry and he reveals this in this book about how to write poetry. This book will give everybody the tooContinue

Stephen Fry’S The Ode Less Travelled provides us with a witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry.

Stephen Fry has always had a secret passion for poetry and he reveals this in this book about how to write poetry. This book will give everybody the tools to write poetry; covering the full spectrum of the different poetic forms, structures and techniques. According to Stephen it will make writing poetry fun, easy, satisfying, fulfilling and delightful.

Here is a taste of Stephen’s own efforts;

Lesbian Sappho made this form
With two beats to the final line
Her sex life wasn’t quite the norm
And nor is mine



From the Hardcover edition.

Critics

  • He's come to read the metre

    The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry Hutchinson £10.99, pp355 Could Stephen Fry be the Delia Smith of poetry? 'By the time you have read this book,' he tells us in his preface, 'you will be able to write a Petrarchan sonne ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • School of Verse

    The difficulty of teaching poetry to a lay audience can be summarized by a single, diabolical name: Robin Williams. Williams, as you may recall, played the free-thinking English teacher John Keating in the 1989 movie “Dead Poets Society,” a film that ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 384 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0099509342
  • ISBN-13: 9780099509349
  • Publisher: Arrow
  • Pub date: Oct 23, 2007
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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