The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to writing poetry
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The Ode Less Travelled: A guide to 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,
Product details
Publisher : Arrow; Reprint edition (6 Sept. 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 384 pages
ISBN-10 : 0099509342
ISBN-13 : 978-0099509349
Dimensions : 12.95 x 2.36 x 19.71 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 112,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
297 in Criticism on Poetry & Poets
332 in Love Poetry (Books)
7,829 in Travel & Tourism (Books)
Customer reviews: 4.6
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