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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within - Stephen Fry
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
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Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes. Stephen, who has long written poems, and indeed has written long poems, for his own private pleasure, invites you to... show more
Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry. But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes.

Stephen, 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.  

źródło opisu: Hutchinson, 2007
źródło okładki: http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-ode-less...»
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Format: papier
Publisher: Hutchinson
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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denisebetteridge
denisebetteridge rated it
This is all the technicalities about writing poetry. Very interesting, how to do it "correctly," but it's much more fun to write it the way you feel it rather than tapping your fingers and wavering your voice to make sure you have enough of the correct beats! Very enjoyable for the knowledge itself.
Edward
Edward rated it
3.0 The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
ForewordHow to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules--The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet WithinIncomplete Glossary of Poetic TermsAppendix - Arnaud's AlgorithmAcknowledgementsFurther Reading
Edward
Edward rated it
3.0 The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
ForewordHow to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules--The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet WithinIncomplete Glossary of Poetic TermsAppendix - Arnaud's AlgorithmAcknowledgementsFurther Reading
Jenny Schwartz
Jenny Schwartz rated it
No matter how brilliant Stephen Fry is as an actor and social commentator, when he is offered a knighthood, it will be for his contribution to the craft of poetry.In The Ode Less Travelled he gently, wittily, inexorably insists on poets learning and mastering the "rules" of their craft. Fortunately,...
debnance
debnance rated it
5.0 The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Fry cleverly drags out the reading of this book by forcing the reader to take a vow to read all the poems aloud and to do all the exercises in the book. I did well until I came to the next-to-last chapter of the book, a chapter on forms. I admit it: I didn't do any of the exercises on writing pantou...
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