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
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