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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
by Fry, Stephen
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- ISBN 10
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- ISBN 13
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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 4th with number line.* Date: 2005.* Pub: Hutchinson.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, no other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper with black and yellow titles to spine and face. Price clipped, shelf price not known. Some slight shelf wear. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slightly dusty to top edge. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 327 pp. text. xxxii pp. glossary, appendix, acknowledgements, reading list & blank pages at rear.* Description: 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.* A FINE text copy with minor age to dust jacket reducing it to VG++.*
Synopsis
Comedian and actor Stephen Fry's witty and practical guide, now in paperback, gives the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. In The Ode Less Travelled, he invites readers to discover the delights of writing poetry for pleasure and provides the tools and confidence to get started. Through enjoyable exercises, witty insights, and simple step-by-step advice, Fry introduces the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics.Most of us have never been taught to read or write poetry, and so it can seem mysterious and intimidating. But Fry, a wonderfully competent, engaging teacher and a writer of poetry himself, sets out to correct this problem by explaining the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. Fry's method works, and his enthusiasm is contagious as he explores different forms of poetry: the haiku, the ballad, the villanelle, and the sonnet, among many others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of but never read. The Ode Less Travelled is not just the survey course you never took in college, it's a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try.
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- Title
- The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
- Author
- Fry, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edition, 4th. Impression.
- ISBN 10
- 009179661X
- ISBN 13
- 9780091796617
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 359
- Date Published
- 2005-10-20
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