The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
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, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.
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, this book gives you the tools and the confidence to do so with enjoyable exercises, insights and simple step-by-step advice.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099509349 (0099509342)
Publish date: September 6th 2007
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
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.
ForewordHow to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules--The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet WithinIncomplete Glossary of Poetic TermsAppendix - Arnaud's AlgorithmAcknowledgementsFurther Reading
ForewordHow to Read this Book. Three Golden Rules--The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet WithinIncomplete Glossary of Poetic TermsAppendix - Arnaud's AlgorithmAcknowledgementsFurther Reading
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,...
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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