The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking The Poet Within

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Book: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking The Poet Within
Bestselling novelist, comedian, and actor Stephen Fry presents a witty and practical guide that's designed to give the aspiring poet or student the tools and confidence to write and understand poetry.

"I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it."
aStephen Fry, "The Ode Less Travelled"
Stephen Fry believes that if one can speak and read English, one can write poetry. Many of us have never been taught to read or write poetry and think of it as a mysterious and intimidating form. Or, if we have been taught, we remember uncomfortable silence when an English teacher invited the class to "respond" to a poem. In "The Ode Less Travelled," Fry sets out to correct this problem by giving aspiring poets the tools and confidence they need to write poetry for pleasure.

Fry is a wonderfully engaging teacher and writer of poetry himself, and he explains the various elements of poetry in simple terms, without condescension. His enjoyable exercises and witty insights introduce the concepts of Metre, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Poetics. Aspiring poets will learn to write a sonnet, on ode, a villanelle, a ballad, and a haiku, among others. Along the way, he introduces us to poets we've heard of, but never read. "The Ode Less Travelled" is a lively celebration of poetry that makes even the most reluctant reader want to pick up a pencil and give it a try. BACKCOVER: Advanced Praise:
aDelightfully erudite, charming and soundly pedagogical guide to poetic forma] Fry has created an invaluable and highly enjoyable reference book.a
a"Publishers Weekly"
aA smart, sane and entertaining return to the basicsa] If you like Fryas comic mannera] this book has a lot of charma] People entirely fresh to thesubject could do worse than stick with his cheerful leadership.a
a"The Telegraph" (UK)
aa]intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed.a
a"Observer" (UK)
"If you learn how to write a sonnet, and Fry shows you how, you may or may not make a poem. But you will unlock the stored wisdom of the form itself."
aGrey Gowrie, "The Spectator" (UK)
aa]intelligent and informative, a worthy enterprise well executed.a
a"Observer" (UK)

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Details of Book: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking The Poet Within Book: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking The Poet Within
Author: Stephen Fry
ISBN:

1592402488


ISBN-13:

9781592402489

,

978-1592402489


Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: 2006/08/17
Publisher: Penguin Group Usa
Number of Pages: 357
Language: English
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